Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arizona, New Mexico and Utah plateaux the Navaho Indians constitute a sort of peasantry, crowding into low, flat adobe shacks. Water is scarce and sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school...
...Allegretto Presto Mr. Bauer 3. Hark All Ve Lovely Saints Weelkes Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line Ravel Scherzo in B flat minor Chopin Mr. Bauer 5. Soterade Boredine Zut! Zut! Zut! Flgar Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Waguer The Harvard Glee Club
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...
...Harlow for second and third prizes the Committee felt that these two plans contained most pertinent suggestions although neither in the opinion of the Committee offered an immediate solution. The suggestions in Mr. Harlow's essay and in that of Mr. Weissberger, regarding the self service at a flat rate and a separate grill with more leeway as to hours of service the judges felt might be incorporated in the plan presented by Mr. Keyes. The Committee, while disagreeing with the solution offered by Mr. Wyzanski of supervised private boarding houses, considered his essay as possibly the most carefully worked...
...history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium," and then he lays the doubter flat with 38 impressive charts charting the wonders the 18th Amendment has wrought. All evils-new recruits for the army of drunkards, per capita consumption of alcohol, juvenile delinquency, crimes against chastity, arrests in disorderly houses, profanity, deaths and insanity due to alcoholism-have decreased since...