Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seal fisheries dispute with England and defending the McKinley Tariff were his first big jobs, both successful. President Harrison made him a Federal judge in Ohio. He handed down the decision dissolving the cast-iron pipe monopoly-first vital effect of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Roosevelt, the trustbuster, offered him twice a Supreme Court appointment but he declined...
Valuable as the political clubs may be in bringing the campaign to the college for a short time every fourth fall, they give no solid assistance to the college man baffled by his first voting opportunity, Really to cast one's vote intelligently, one should follow party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control...
Thorough tests of a new British anti-tank gun, said to be capable of destroying any tank at 800 yards, led to a furious controversy among experts, last week, during which the statement was bandied that "the tank is now as obsolete as the old cast iron battleship...
...York Sun, old Munsey paper, still keeps the NO SMOKING rule. Keats Speed, managing editor of the Sun, has added another prohibition. Paper shall not be cast upon the floor, but shall be placed in wastebaskets. Noiseless typewriters, too, are replacing the old machines. Said Mr. Speed: "All normal men hate noise and mess; I loathe them both...
...longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy of airships...