Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know," says the man. "I don't know," says the next man. All is confusion. The firemen have not yet come. The front hall is full of flames. Some men are pounding at the locked backdoor...
...Majesty's Opposition. So marked was the political calm amid which Parliament assembled, last week, that attention focused on one man, merely because his eminence is new. He is Richard Bedford Bennett, 57, full throated as a singing thrush. Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost...
White elephants are a symbol for useless beauty, for that which is at the same time precious and without value. In the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, last week, the Central Furniture Co. of Louisville inserted a full-page advertisement of a sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo...
California. With President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine Co., Manhattan, among her full complement of passengers, the new Panama-Pacific Liner California (TIME, Jan. 30) left New York last week on her maiden voyage to San Francisco...
...more keen, more ready to criticize and discuss, and a course given one year cannot be repeated the next with as little preparation as formerly. As compared with European universities our periods of lecturing are nearly half as long again, and the vacations, in which the professor has a full chance to do his reading and writing, are correspondingly shorter. The Division of History, Government and Economics, which has had the problem of the tutors longest, discussed this matter, and presented to the Committee on Instruction a plan which that Committee, as a whole and through a sub-committee, worked...