Word: evens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired of TIME'S blathering, daddling stupid, idiotic, fatheaded fumbles. "Washington State's Golden Bears!" What pansy-eyed window-dresser writes your so-called sport news? Everyone, even TIME, should know that California's teams for 40 years have been known as the Golden Bears. California, not Washington, is famous for the discovery of gold...
During Mrs. Willebrandt's tenure of office, the Prohibition & Taxation division of the Department of Justice grew from the smallest to the largest. President Hoover contemplates making it even larger by adding to its prosecution of dry cases the major job, now performed by the Treasury, of actual field enforcement of the Volstead Act. Lately the President set his friend, John L. McNab, to plotting out a system whereby this transfer and consolidation within the Department of Justice may be effected (TIME, Oct. 14). If and when such a plan becomes operative, Mr. Youngquist will...
...many years the Michigan football team was known as the championship aggregation of the West. The men were always quick; and they always gained numerous victories during the season. But Michigan's supremacy was disputed in those days, even more than now, by Minnesota...
...proper criticism of Mr. O'Brien's social theories would take one beyond the scope of this review and would in fact necessitate the employment of most of modern economics and sociology. He is particularly exercised over the increasing standardization of American production and even goes so far as to deplore President Hoover's campaign to reduce varieties of pipe fitting from 17,000 to 610. Perhaps this reviewer is biased, but an intimate acquaintance with a summer water supply dependent upon the cooperation of a Michigan-made pump and the usual New Hampshire assortment of pipe fittings makes...
...trip that would have taken him to Ann Arbor and fame and . . . temporary financial case. During the Prime Minister's recent visit to this country the Vagabond completed the coup of his lifetime. Negotiations were brought to a successful conclusion which would have enabled the Vagabond to outshine even his distinguished rival, Mr. Richard Halliburton...