Word: batch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mama bear and a baby bear. Papa bear liked his porridge very, very hot. Mama bear liked her porridge "just hot." Baby bear liked his porridge only warm. But it was quite impossible for cook to make three kinds of porridge every morning. So cook made up a batch of porridge that was the same temperature as if she had made some veryvery hot porridge, some just-hot porridge, some only-warm porridge, and mixed them together. Papa bear grumbled that it wasn't right. Mama bear growled that she wouldn't have it. Baby bear squeaked that...
Stanley Baldwin appears to have made a most excellent batch of his brief careers as Prime Minister. Before he assumed the office, he lost many American well-wishers by a tactless remark about the American attitude in regard to the British war debt. At home he has failed to start British business on the up-swing toward prosperity. His foreign policy has failed to reopen foreign markets; his internal fiscal policy has taxed England white in order to bring English exchange to par to take advantage of that American inflation which has not yet occurred; and as a last resource...
Miss, Mason's voice was not sweet although it was limpid and rich. She possessed a certain emotional restraint that lent to her singling a peculiar voluptuousness. Her voice showed to best advantage in Batch's Bist du bel mir." Her rendition of Batti, batti" would, we think have been more successful had it been more animated. She sang also Dupare's "Chanson Triste", Liszt's "Comment disaient-lls?" and Rachmanlnoff's, "Flcods of Spring...
...University time trials, which produced satisfactory contests, will bear greatly on the selection of the men to enter the meet next Saturday. In the 100-yard dash, the same two heats were each run twice. In the first batch of men, Wansker and Chase each secured a first and a second place, but in the second heat, Keyes won both races. In the 220-yard dash, Wansker and Keyes were victors in their heats. The first was then run over again, and this time Chase beat our Wansker for first place. Colt won the 440-yard dash, nosing out Howe...