Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemporaries, Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. He did not live to outgrow Ohio, like a William Howard Taft or a Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion of small-town Ohioans, he remained. President he was not destined to be but he died...
Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
...exaggeration of a statement delivered in the fire of oratory may be excused, but not so the essentially faulty idea of the reverent doctor. Fair example of a teacher in the American college may be found at Harvard. If the lecturer has the intention of deceiving the student, certainly the plot has been skillfully concealed. Scholars may reach conclusions which are at odds with the teachings of the church, but the blame does not rest with the professor. The student forms his own beliefs...
...decided to eliminate bootleggers. Its members have drawn their first blood by confiscating a car as its owner delivered liquor to the inhabitants of a dormitory. They have brought the matter before the law, and now the court is to pronounce judgment upon the dealer. The case hangs fire, while those concerned with the fate of bootleggers and of student councils watch, intrigued. Whether it is nobler to suffer in silence, or to take arms against this move--that is the question at Williams. Perhaps, with summer not so far away, there will be no protest this year. But autumn...
Officers at University Hall believed a short circuit to be the cause of the fire, although some think that it may have been due to rats and mice, spontaneous compustion, or the dropping of a lighted match...