Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Nelson was an able and conscientious editor. His paper was a paper of "ideals"-none more so. His habit of printing a great deal of miscellaneous but accurate information about science, invention, exploration, literature, made the Star a sort of university extension for boys and girls on Kansas and Missouri farms. Nothing that he could do, while he lived, to make it a better paper, was left undone. The Star repaid his efforts with about $20,000,000. "He shared with Frank Munsey" commented the New Republic "the extraordinary respect for art which is sometimes found among those...
...Baldwin explained that his own reading of history had begun with Froissart, going on to Scott, Macaulay, Froude, Carlyle, Clarendon. He dwelt upon the opportunity for some historian to deal with the American Revolution from the viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite...
...Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...
...farce of pretending that he and a handful of informal advisors constituted the Government of China. Why should the Nine-Power delegates to the Customs and extraterritoriality Conferences (TIME, Dec. 28, Feb. 1) swelter in Peking all summer, since there existed absolutely no government with whom they could deal...
...again; Senators yelled desperately that they did not know what they were voting on. Finally, at 9:20 p. m., emerged a tiny bill, sponsored by the Administration. For the establishment of a co-operative marketing division within the Department of Agriculture, it appropriated $225,000. (Most farm bills deal in hundreds of millions...