Word: brew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does seem as though the masters of popular destiny could behave a little less boorishly, not to say stupidly. Surely they know that what storm she could brew in the tea pots of the pleasant circles where she would visit could not do half the damage of this greater storm raised by their own rigor. It is indeed unfortunate that the Department of State must be so unpleasant to such a good looking lady...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?A bitter, bitter draft of a New England brew, concocted by that most artistic distiller of sour drinks, Eugene O'Neill...
...Willie brew'd a peck o' maut...
...been changed. The system under which most of the professors now at Harvard were educated was one which involved learning, by self-wiled energy. The tutorial system at Harvard today has as its object a species of synthetic feeling, whereby the tutor puts an intellectual yeast-cake into the brew of the student's thoughts as an aid to mental fermentation. The test of potency is applied in the divisional examinations, when the display of knowledge shows itself truly effervescent, in some cases even explosive...
Wearing to a close in Los Angeles was the suit of the Government to recover the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, leased to the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. of Edward L. Doheny. Almost a year since the scandal began to brew, it is still sputtering?the Government trying to cancel the lease and make void the contract whereby the Doheny company tapped the California reserve and paid its royalties in tankage constructed for the Government at the Pearl Harbor naval base, Hawaii...