Word: actuallity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes of the People of the U. S. are turned longingly towards Canada and her gigantic unexplored natural resources and their hearts are filled with envy and covetousness, . . . after terrific economic pressure our neighbor now plans the actual conquest of Canada, and waits but the hour to strike...
...actual attempt at U. S. annexation was reported last week from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Objecting to a lecture delivered by Miss Eileen Fields, their teacher, pupils in the Pike Lake School lustily shouted: "Down with the English!" They pasted on the blackboard a print of the U. S. flag, torn from the school's Book of Knowledge. A lad of twelve lowered his head and butted Miss Fields three times in the pit of the stomach...
Commencement Day brings to Cambridge the most impressive of the University's guests, and the awarding of honor degrees is the most interesting part of the ceremony. It is a clever custom that keeps the names secret until the actual event, and an even more desirable one that makes it necessary for each recipient to be present in person. Sometimes one wishes that the same requirement might be enforced for candidates for regular degrees. Certainly the Senior's experiences of Commencement Week have become an unforgettable memory: he has been welcomed by the graduates body into which he now enters...
...Epsom Derby is England's most famed though of course not always its most exciting race. The Derby excitement obtains not from the actual running of the race but from the world-wide lottery betting upon it. At the end of a Derby race it is generally discovered that some very obscure person has suddenly won a considerable fortune at very little risk. Such knowledge encourages people to bet on the following Derby. Thus Derby sweepstakes perennially increase in number and size...
Said President Katzenberg: "Abrupt price fluctuations are most devastating to dealers, tanners and importers. With the Exchange in operation there will be a ready market, and while the trend will be governed by actual conditions prevailing in the trade, fluctuations will be reasonably regulated and [traders] will have an opportunity to make hedge sales whenever they feel inclined...