Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money as if they believed in free enterprise, as in fact they obviously...
...nothing on another Missourian in the field of the corn-fed anecdote. Homespun Democrat George Christopher wanted the House to know that he had been farming since he was old enough and he was for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Said Christopher proudly, turning Short's mule around: "I invite you all to look at another Missourian who has looked for long hours at the north end of that southbound mule...
Things could be different, of course, but a look at previous results marks the Crimson as a definite favorite. For instance, Harvard opened its season two weeks ago by beating Princeton easily; the Tigers turned around the following week to leave Penn four seconds behind...
American Mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was Class Poet in 1821, and, according to a contemporary report, his efforts were considerably "above expectation." The Chorister appeared unofficially around 1825, to lead the Class in singing the official Ode, and other innovations, some of which stuck and some of which didn't crept in during the later stages of the century...