Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of an established program for the chosen few proves the pit-fall it threatens to be, the Fellowships may develop into a state of affairs similar to that reached by the Dean's List. It is this happy medium which insures a freedom for individual study and at the same time provides a less ephemeral form of attack than that afforded by a complete lack of organized study...
...with many another high U. S. official, Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann. Mr. Gann also went. He knew that Mr. McLean publishes the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer; that he was a bosom friend of President Harding; that he had "gone down the line" for Albert Bacon Fall, during the oil scandals; that his wife owns but rarely wears the Hope Diamond (44½ karats...
...March 1924, when the oil scandals were white-hot, Oilman Sinclair was called before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Ten questions were put to him. One question was whether he had given money to Albert Bacon Fall, whilom Secretary of the Interior. Oilman Sinclair, on advice of counsel, Martin Wilie Littleton, refused to answer every question...
...there were scarcely any June bugs in those States. That was because the beetles laid their eggs in 1927. (They prefer weedy lands or farms of small grains and timothy hay for laying.) Last year the eggs developed into grubs, which this year will turn into bugs, which next fall will deposit their store of eggs in their three-year cycle. The grubs do more farm damage than the bugs. Hence entomologists, knowing that hogs adore the juicy grubs, urge farmers to pasture swine next year in fields which are June buggy this summer...
...paper. He died in 1869 and Mr. Jones carried it on to greater wealth and prestige. Dying in 1891, he left a splendid property to his children, with an injunction that they never sell out. Within a year they were preparing to sell. The editors, fearing the paper would fall into unworthy hands, rushed about and got a company organized which bought the property for $950,000. Then came the panic of 1893. The Times barely escaped consolidation and, in 1896, welcomed the help of Adolph Simon Ochs of Chattanooga. Tenn. For $75,000 and his services he got, within...