Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan on the occasion of the latter's marriage. (See Page 11.) ¶ Mr. Coolidge accepted a place as honorary head of a Business Men's Committee of the Foundation for the Free Distribution of the American Standard Bible. Other members of the Committee include Woodrow Wilson arid William Howard Taft. Said the President: "It is a pleasure to become associated with this fine Christian work...
After he had retired from business he started to clean up "Delaware politics," and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1918. In the same year he went into the hotel business (WaldorfAstoria and McAlpin, New York, arid Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia). "One of the most democratic of men, liked by all who come in contact with...
Washington does not like trusts arid does not propose to let them operate unassailed. The eagle eye of the Federal authorities ranges high and low; it fears not the mighty in their seat nor does it overlook the humble and meek...
Everyone expected Mr. Gillett to be elected?ultimately?since the obstructionist tactics of the Cooper and Madden supporters were maintained merely to get concessions on the rules, but the vote revealed how the ten Wisconsin, six Minnesotan arid a few other scattered insurgents will have the power to tie up action all through the session on any question where the regular Republicans and Democrats are divided...
...mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow him to devote himself wholly to his insect friends. At last, in 1879, he was able to buy some arid wasteland, called by the peasants harmas (worthless), at Serignan, a village in Provence. There in a small stucco cottage he lived till his death, a gentle, philosophical hermit, finding on his harmas a paradise of swarming insects. With tweezers, magnifying glass, tin box, he collected his living specimens, observed them...