Word: ca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strontium Sr 87.63 Calcium Ca 40.07 Vanadium Va 51.0 Magnesium Mg 24.32 Rubidium Rb 85.45 Potassium K 39.10 Zinc Zn 65.37 Sodium...
...newer to fame, is currently contrasted with Clara Bow. Clara stood for sex; Janet for sentiment. The Bow-sprite lingers at the great U. S. soda-fountain of youth, along with 'Varsity drags, high school fraternities, sheikism, shebaism, girls who say "If you don't think so, you're ca-RAzy," insipid youths who say "And I don't mean perhaps." More truly, with greater ease than any other cinemactress, the Bow-sprite typifies the slangy, vital grisette who frolics in and out of adolescence, does her marrying, gets the embonpoint...
...have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride are pursued by an eery fate...
...referring to the familiar "For God, for Country and for Yale" which must be sung: "For God, for Ca-a-unt-ry and for Yale"--which is loathsome but which can be made very unannoying and definite not by changing the words at all but by repeating two of them, thus: "For God for God, for Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale...
...bankruptcies were caused by suits against Adair Realty & Trust Ca. for $915.45 and against Adair & Senter for $23,221.18. They could not pay their debts promptly, for their own money was frozen in real estate mortgages and in construction projects.* So Adair investors will probably lose about 25% of their money. Said Forrest Adair last week, in rueful summary of the real estate mortgage bond business: "Each separate issue of bonds is made by a separate company, and secured by a separate mortgage, and as to 75% or more of these bonds, the mortgage securing the same is ample...