Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I was twelve when shredded wheat was born, and worked and played in father's laboratory. I grew up under the influence of his enthusiasms, worked in every department of his factory, made some inventions of my own, and in 1920 invented Muffets. Now I am, myself, conservatively but...
Treaty. Debate on the Kellogg Peace Treaty occupied most of the Senate's week. It had been thought that the treaty would be passed early in the week, but debate dragged on endlessly. Secretary Kellogg's refusal to consider the addition of any interpretive or qualifying resolution, together...
In the last years of his career, Promoter Rickard had surrounded himself with a powerful corporation, mainly to insure financial security. It seemed likely that whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President...
The learned scholar who contributed to your columns yesterday has given us a working foundation for solving the weighty issue of the Junior Prom. He decided that the constituency of the 1929 affair was representative of the class as a whole, but that at the same time the grand total...
Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that...