Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liabilities of the Reading Period is still remote. If, however, its assets are arranged in the chronological order of their appearance, the benefit to the professors, tutors, instructors, and assistants of the University will, like the name of Abou Ben Adhem, lead all the rest. For it is already clear that the respite from lectures, conferences, and section meetings has given the faculty an invaluable opportunity to do its own research work...
...show the primary racial divisions of the human species and the criteria of race, by "close-ups" and animated, cartoons expressed simply enough so that the school children will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...
...addition to the foregoing, Governor Smith touched upon two topics of state interest with such emphasis that his national views on the same topics were made clear. To the U. S. electorate, these were the outstanding points in the "eighth and last" message of the Governor who wants to be President...
...walking through the cellar one day, when I noticed that one of my coal bins had been completely filled with thousands of copies of some pamphlet. This was a clear hint, which I immediately seized. I cancelled all my coal orders for that month and used the pamphlets. They were all new, bore no signs that anyone had ever opened them. In this way I saved the price of 44 tons of coal, which will keep me in penwipers for the rest of my life. You may be interested to know that I was the one who originated the term...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...