Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot but wonder what your idea was in publishing [Oct. 22] on page 10, under "Prohibition," a likeness of one John Becak, Manhattan wagon driver for the morgue. Who among TIME subscribers cares what a wagon driver for the morgue looks like? Do you call this "news"? I certainly...
...method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover man for six years. Dr. Kellogg is not likely to be called over to the Hoover administration from his Potomac-viewing office in the Academy of Science-unless an emergency arises. In cases of crisis...
...distraction for a few moments only. . . . The Americans have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time to go to the cinema. ... I do not think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned the crank when my brother and I took our first motion picture. It was of Auguste sculling our rowboat across the River Rhone...
Smugly confident, General Hertzog hinted that he might ask the King-Emperor's brother-in-law to dissolve the Dominion Parliament and call a general election as early as next January, perhaps even before Christmas...
...Ours is the triumph of Constitutionalism over Despotism. We shall immediately call for the dissolution of Parliament and hold new, honest elections...