Word: furnisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious to know on what authority TIME has discovered an "insect-line" at 2,500 feet above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence...
Elaborating his thesis, Dr. Mendelsohn said: "The human body's motive power is represented by the cellular activity of the glands and skin in absorbing and excreting liquids which furnish the requisite fuel for the human motor, whereas the heart and blood circulation merely play a regulative role in distributing such fuel and resulting refuse to and from the various motors throughout the body, namely, the internal, glandular and epidermic cells...
...want. He gives them efficient light, gas and trolley cars. After Harold Fowler McCormick had given them grand opera at a deficit of a million yearly, Santa Claus (whose Chicago name is Samuel Insull) stepped in and reduced the deficit by more than 50%. He implied that he would furnish grand opera at no deficit...
...Humbug" and for leaving out passages which I considered essential toward bringing out my point. My opinions are always subject to correction, and if there is any suggestion you have to offer as to why they are faulty, I shall be very grateful to you. Can you furnish any sound reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence ? If I should place my faith in this deity, why wouldn't it be just as logical to place my faith in Santa Claus as well? In fact the latter gentleman ought to command...
This second-hand furniture business has now almost entirely disappeared because the university has adopted the policy of furnishing all the college rooms. The college has decided to furnish all of the college dormitories and will have nearly all of them equipped by next fall. This policy has brought about the expenditure of nearly $200,000, for chairs, tables, beds, desks, chiffoniers, bookcases, etc.,--the largest single furniture order, we believe, ever placed in New England...