Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter-brain scared to collect the money, they run away and finally trail along with a traveling carnival. Amelia, as ticket-collector in shabby velvet, attains a certain dreary happiness...
...have been able to offset such monopolies by substitutes?nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen, rubber from carbohydrates, camphor from coal tar, coffee (Postum) from barley and wheats. There are no substitutes for potash or iodine. Yet chemists are already getting a little potash from the U. S. low-grade deposits along the Mexican border, iodine from seaweed and kelp...
...Harvard men are in back of the idea. Harvard men will-continue to back the project. It is proposed that a representative group of well known graduates will form the Directorate of the finished building. The shops along Massachusetts Avenue will provide easy shopping facilities and the garage will take care of a problem that has proved embarrassing to residents in the past...
...only universities in the country beside those mentioned above, that sponsor Naval Reserve units are the University of Washington and the University of California. These two western colleges took their June cruise along the Paciflc seaboard aboard the battleship Pennsylvania, sailing as far south as Victoria...
...Clara Bow is a nice little girl out of her element as a hostess in a dance hall, and it seems that she is misunderstood. After the local swains have attempted to discover the talent hidden behind a demure exterior; it finally turns out that the right party happens along, and after the usual expected and unexpected misunderstandings and controversies, the show...