Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reverend Potter does not recommend, however, that the full paraphernalia of Japanese ancestor worship be adopted. An American touch is to be gained by substituting extensive use of the radio for periodical visits to tombs and shrines. And were only the Eastern mystery of an ancestral fetish to be considered, there could be no doubt as to the popularity of this new radio religion. Inasmuch as it may be interpreted as thinly disguised propaganda for the intensive study of American history it seems, at least among the "rising generation" foredoomed to failure...
...American farming. In the former case, a small area is carefully tilled, and studied, in order to raise the maximum produce which its natural fertility makes possible. In the latter, whole-sale methods are applied to vast territories, and a fair yield is ordinarily obtained, which rarely represents the full return of which the land is capable...
...seven weeks' extra training of these men combined with a dark day to confuse the embryo batter men at their first workout. There was a notable tendency on the part of the pitchers to put their full strength into each toss, and a rather hopeless batting record was the afternoon's result. Things are expected to run more smoothly, however, as soon as the rest of the aggregation has had more time to get into shape...
...fellow citizens, the great masses of the people, obtain their idea of American justice from the minor courts, from the magistrates' courts, from municipal courts, the tribunals that are well called the poor man's courts. Here is a special trust of the lawyers to use their full influence to assure an inexpensive, speedy, expert administration of justice where the courts most frequently touch the lives of the plain people...
...funniest books of the season, presumably without intending it.' Anderson cited the following as a particularly fine example of unconscious humor: 'If you can picture a flowering arbour and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding inside of it a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect of Miss Farrar's presence. ... If I had said, therefore, that the arbour concealed one of those marvelous implements that cut, thrash and sack the grain, all in a single...