Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
...second anniversary, President Quezon said grandly to U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt: "This army that has paraded before us, sir, is not only the Philippine Army, it is your Army because under the Independence Act the President of the United States, whom you represent, has power to call it out in defense of the American flag and also because the Filipino people would gladly do so in recognition of what you have done...
That sounded almost in the vein of Acting Mayor Riley, who jumped his police chief last week for offering the same alibis for the city's disorder that had been used "ever since you were a harness bull." Once when a cantankerous office-seeker called him a buckpasser, Mr. Riley, an Oregon State Agricultural Collegeman, whose post-graduate work included truck driving, replied that "no son of a bitch can call me a buck-passer," and forthwith thrashed the fellow purple...
...point of our editorial was to prove that during the busy hours there are many delays which could be remedied by enlarging the stack staff, not that that the average time is too long. When a second test was made last Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 by sending a dozen call-slips to various parts of the library, it was found that no book came within twelve minutes, one was returned within thirteen, and the rest required eighteen. We believe such experiences are common at the delivery desk...
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