Word: ado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion, it was decided that the little brown jug should go to the winner of the annual game, to stay in that college's possession for the next 12 months. Ever since them, although the Gophers do not hold their former position of natural rivals, there is always much ado about the jug, and the festivities of the Gopher-Wolverine game hold a high place in the minds of the student bodies...
Sirs: In these days of much ado about Farm Relief, you may be interested in what the Guernsey breeders have to say about it. In their picnic at River Falls, Wis., on June 4 as you will note on the attached sheet, they sang to the good old tune "I've been working on the railroad" the lines on the enclosure. May I suggest as a headline, "Udder Nonsense...
...long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
...Without ado he placed a piece of magnetized cobalt steel on a table and in the air some distance above it placed another similar piece. The upper one remained balanced without mechanical support. His explanation was simple: one end of a magnet is positive, the other negative; with two magnets the positive of one attracts the negative of the other, the positive and negative of one repel the positive and negative of the other; cobalt steel can be so highly magnetized that its repellent power can support a relatively large weight against the pull of gravity...
...Eastman system (Kodacolor), exploited a month ago with appropriate ado (TIME, Aug. 6), uses a corrugated film. When projected upon a screen the pictures are excellent. But the screen may not be larger than 16½ by 22 in. If larger, the images show the corrugations of the film. And no copies of the film can be made...