Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half years ago a great superstructure began. Postum Company, which had multiplied its 200,000 common shares to 2,000,000, began to buy allied but not competitive companies-and their trademarked advertised products. That is why the Postum Company now sells besides its first items this array of eatables...
...purpose of argument is after all to convince. School and college debates are prone to regard their exercise as an esoteric thing, entirely divorced from human conversation and understanding. This attitude leads to marshaling of facts and fancy, into an array which is presented in a fashion calculated only to get it all out on time. The new necessity to convince a body of intelligent fellow-beings whose sentiments have been sound already will lead inevitably toward a more careful preparation of briefs with special at tention to those qualities which make argument at once convincing and good to hear...
...very restricted in membership and mainly intended for theological students. By offering many of the advantages of a college without its exclusiveness and by avoiding through its wider range the provincialism of the high schools, such an idea offered the solution and was destined to develop into the present array of schools and colleges in which caste lines have ceased to be a barrier...
Although the CRIMSON array of diamond dusters has suffered from the in roads of graduation, a careful search of nooks and corners of the building has brought to light some material which, if not promising, is at least plastic. The chief gaps to be filled are in the pitcher's box, around the keystone sack, and in left field...
...amazing Hoover, when it comes to arriving at an analytical conclusion from an array of given facts, with an uncanny intuition in his rapid calculations and a capacity for getting other men to work for him which amounts to genius...