Word: furnisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance of these and the other nineteen pieces that the small book encloses are in some way explained by the quotations that furnish its title: from Noah Webster, " '. . .the yellow gentian which has a very bitter taste' " and from The New Botany, "'... flowers, pushing through from some inner plane of being, and with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact...
...seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish little opposition after the first half...
...slim, chiefly a strut to hold the tail. But before the actual ship is built, the model must be well tested in a wind tunnel, i. e.-a a stout tunnel built for aviation model tests. So terrific is the suction of the propeller set at one end to furnish air currents, that a man standing in the tunnel would be swept into the whirling blades, instantly killed...
...entertainment will be held tomorrow evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Union living room. C. E. Henderson '28 and W. L. Weeks will furnish piano and vocal amusement...
...British press bureaus, and since these amiable organizations controlled and dictated all foreign news matter published in the United States from August 1914 until the close of the recent unpleasantness, we were forced to put up with whatever makeshift or even imaginary heroes our sometime allies could furnish. And it was indeed a lean week when we were unable to read of the British Battalion Commander who led his gallant boys to victory by dribbling a soccer ball over No Man's Land. So frequently was this astounding fruitery perpetrated that one might reasonably have been lead to believe...