Word: camels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduates and others will perhaps object to adding another requirement when the general trend in college education appears to be away from requirements. If to add this would be to break the camel's back, then it would be far better to take off some other part of the load. Certainly if the government of the country is to be good and therefore to last, it must be served by the best educated men in the country. And to serve it at all those men must have at least some smatterings of intelligence about its workings. Unfortunately Americans...
...Camel's Back. Playwright Maugham herein concerned himself with an irresponsible investigation of the regions of the utterly inane. He involved himself in such a feathery swirl of epigram and complication that along in Act II he found that he simply could not make his wits' ends meet. He gave up trying...
...great significance were the product of the Albert Thompson expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in the Snake Creek fossil quarries of western Nebraska: 1) A tooth of a native ape, the only one known in the New World. 2) Skull and jaws of a gigantic camel, much larger than the modern Bactrian. It is attributed to the Pliocene period (about 1,500,000 years ago). 3) Skull and bones of three-toed horses, fossils of a dwarf rhinoceros, a giant pig, and the moropus or clawed ungulate, all belonging to the lower Miocene period...
...course it would be rash to say that prohibition will never be enforced. Perhaps if children, as President Coolidge suggests, are educated with the camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...even in his understanding the President displays a strange lack of understanding. Foreign consumers are not changing off because of heavy costs of transportation. The camel's back has already been broken without the addition of this feather. They are simply too poor to buy heat here at any price and will continue so until their exports swing exchanges back to a less prohibitive figure. Needless to say foreign countries are suffering under this enforced famine, but the United States is suffering too. It can hardly look for real prosperity as long as foreign markets are out of joint...