Word: belongings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gladstonian reforms she raged as follows in a letter to Lord Granville, Gladstone's Foreign Secretary: "The Queen herself can never have any confidence in the men who encourage reform for the sake of alteration and pulling down what exists. . . . A democratic monarchy she will not consent to belong to . . . Others must be found if that...
...strange how far manuscripts and other literary documents often wander from the place of their source but it is more remarkable when, in the course of their peregrinations, they eventually arrive at the place where they properly belong. One instance of this, however, is to be found in a manuscript which has just been acquired by the Grolier Book Shop and which is on exhibition there. This is none other than the original manuscript of "Streets of Night," a novel by John Dos Passos...
Many a high-minded stalwart, feeling sure he could meet these specifications, quailed at one more requirement. To belong to the 15th U. S. Infantry, you must be able to speak at least 300 words in Chinese...
Many a U. S. town too small to belong to the Kiwanis International is large enough to have its own luncheon club of town merchants. Many such clubs look with alarm at the entrance of the first Atlantic & Pacific Tea store, the first Woolworth or the first Liggett. Alarm among luncheon club members increased last week when they learned that there was another invasion to fear. Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, announced that within a year a chain of 150 retail stores would be in operation under their name...
Associate Professor E. A. Booton of the department of Anthropology continued the discussion, although "without the inspiration of the Boy Scouts, rather, undergraduates." He pointed out the methods of identification in crime which belong essentially to the field of Anthropology. "Our, hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races...