Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...careful arrangement of the speeches and a pleasing informality of presentation. Those who heard the contest were few in number, but took a real interest in the argument, and at the end plied the speakers with so many questions that Chairman J. M. Swigert '30 had to call a halt on further queries...
...probably studying during the evening, or taking extension courses under the direction perhaps of men who have themselves trod the same path. Once he learns and understands the principles, he is then in a position to do a little selling, and once he reaches the stage where he can call on banks, bankers, and other investors, he will be able not only to understand their requirements and give them the service that they need and the information about securities which his House can offer, but he is also able year by year to increase his volume of business, and also...
...They had called a priest, weeks ago, and the Generalissimo lived on. The Associated Press had reported "authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...
...austere pallet. As he lay with fast-beating pulse, enduring alternate chills and fever, the man with the calm grey eyes would sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft the hard and prickly stars...
...many good intentions. The excellent reputation that it succeeded in winning for itself by uncovering the wicked snares of Henry Mencken several years ago has apparently been forgotten. But it does not weep alone. Book sellers and publishers whose wares it was the custom of the society to call to the attention of the public will have to seek other means of attaining the hallowed pages of the Evening Transcript. And what is worse, the ready spice of polite dinner conversations will now be salted down with the trivialities of unassisted literary search. As for the adolescents of the city...