Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation, the President several times repeated that he would call no special session of the Senate or House of Representatives. But, back in Washington, it behooved him last week to let the politicians come and tell him he was right...
Explorer William Montgomery Brown, who a year ago told "Boston rocking-chair voyagers" of jungaleering in the Amazon hinterland among "a human race so low that other natives call them animal folks, of finding caterpillars tough eating," (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), told another one in his travel book published last week in London...
...prototype of the Whist Club is the Portland Club in London. For years the Portland Club made the laws for all of England. Other clubs complained, forced the Portland Club to call their members to a lawmaking committee. So also with the Whist Club; a few years ago other U. S. clubs grumbled at what they considered to be "unwarranted authority." Now the laws are made by a committee of various prominent card clubs. But the laws are still issued by The Whist Club...
Good Morning to you, Good Morning to you, Good Morning, Dear Teacher, Good Morning to you. go-when September winds call them home from the wild streets and fields-obedient children, bringing fruit or flowers, are accustomed to chant to fresh-faced schoolmarms. William Albertson, a boy whose arithmetic was always wrong, hummed no such homage as he lounged carelessly into his sixth-grade seat at the Brainard Public...
...advisors reports on all Freshmen, which were written for the first time last October, will again be a feature of the system this fall. The reports, however, will be more important than in the past, for when a Freshman's standing is questionable, the Freshman Dean will call for the advisor's report and use it to aid him in deciding the case. The reports will be used only by the Advisory Committee and the deans will not be published...