Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to find out whether or not you are right in your contention that Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson is "of Danish stock," you might ask him personally, and I hereby make the offer to donate one hundred dollars ($100) to any charity designated by you if Mr. Stefansson will say that he is "of Danish stock...
...monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...
Hearing the above quoted unequivocal, politico-religious dicta, a militant partisan or a non-partisan might seek their source. He would find these statements in The Presbyterian Magazine. He would find that the author of the pronouncements is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, who, as moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.* occupies Presbyterianism's highest eminence...
...comes from Java and other oriental Dutch cinchona tree plantations. The British have small plantations in India. The northern Andes, particularly in Ecuador, where the trees are native, now produce little of the bark. The Indians, who must chop their paths through jungles to reach the isolated cinchona groves, find the labor too hard for profit. Consequently the Dutch have been able to regulate the world cinchona bark and quinine trade very much as they pleased...
...come over here expecting to find Harvard a hotbed of collegiatism; my disillusionment was most welcome," John Maud, Davidson Scholar from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...