Word: browses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sporting prophecy is chiefly valuable because of the contingent " ifs " which are a ready aid to conversation. Each year the scribes and the prophets, the managers and the elevator boy scan the situation with professional care and announce their choice. General consensus this Spring places the preliminary laurels on the...
That in place of the black-browed man with a secret sorrow and a Byronic collar we have Babbitts and Pinneys "with no brows at all and Arrow collars." (P. 14.)
The methods by which this end is to be attained are as unusual as the aim itself. From the coal used in the engines he will extract the benzol, which he thus obtains free through the sale of the valuable by-products. From this benzol he will get as much...