Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harris providing the President with an extra $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. Secretary Mellon opposed this, because the money did not pass through the Budget; because it only put more agents in the field without increasing the auxiliary branches of enforcement (courts, Coast Guard, Civil Service Commission, etc.); because a survey of needs, he thought, should come first...
...student" of Columbia University; in Manhattan last week. Dr. Kemp was a native of Janesville, Wis. When he was a lazy Columbia freshman, relatives promised him $2,500 for each year he remained at the University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree of D. P. M.-Doctor of Perpetual Motion. His university career paralleled the expansion of education. New courses and degrees were continually being offered in time to prevent him from exhausting the Columbia curriculum and so losing his annuity...
...Taxis; by Princess Ilia of Bohemia; at the altar, in Regensburg, Bavaria. Reason: She preferred to espouse his younger brother, Prince Philip Ernst Maria Adalbert Josef Maximilian Anton Ignatz Stanislas Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis, whom she had met while preparing to marry Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef, etc. etc...
When President Coolidge remarked that "the business of America is business," most of his listeners thought at once of Big Business-U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, etc., etc. But for every billion-dollar corporation there are countless thousand-dollar corporations. For every Big Business that worries about the anti-trust law there are many small businesses that worry about the sheriff. And perhaps it is the little business that moves in the most mysterious ways its wonders to perform...
...Well known to all who enter college or preparatory school are the blank forms to be filled in with name, address, name of parents, etc., etc. But at The Hill new questions are asked, a new sort of chart is being kept. Searching and revealing, it justifies Headmaster Wendell's advice to the parents of the twelve who will not go to college...