Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond had it on his calendar to say something today about the fact that spring is only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much...
...before had occupied Thiaucourt; the cellars not yet mopped up for German stragglers. General Neville had hastily established headquarters in a basement where he was busy issuing orders for the disposition of troops. His orderly hung the General's field overcoat in front of the house to dry. Along came mule and caisson with two doughboys perched aloft. German booty was in their minds and in their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home...
...regime has begun. The brilliant banners that waved along the Avenue are already forgotten in the dark cellars along with the other relics of the inauguration. The visitors have departed, for now the overture is ended and the citizenry settles down to watch the drama proper. The optical nerves of the nation, the newspapers, have sent their outstanding reporters to the scene; foreign governments watch the proceedings through the eyes of discerning diplomats, while the unemployed cultivate westernisms as they hopefully peep through the presidential windows...
...will imagine with me this Graph as covering the various occupations in which men labor, you can look along either line--vertical or horizontal--and find a given position at any given point. We shall find, for example, the sales manager for the manufacturing company which makes household furniture. We can find the accountant for the rubber factory...
...considering these various fields of human endeavor, and methods of progress, we can consider, first of all, either the industries or the types of jobs in which a man may work, and we can consider for the moment the man as interested in some particular, field along either line, and that in any event a "castle's move" may, be possible as an outlook to future progress...