Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cason did not say and I have never said as TIME published "that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything but football unless he is willing to subject himself to abnormal strain." It is quite different to maintain that "today in our Universities a varsity athlete to be successful must devote more time to athletics than to any other phase of his college life." This I believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they...
...automatic in his hand shook nervously as he asked the passengers to "fork over." "I've got a wife and two kids at home and the railroad won't give me a job," he apologized to his victims...
...form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly." One of her concoctions she served recently to a group of W. C. T. U. members, who smackingly pronounced it "very tasty." Soon scores of thirsty but temperate Drys demanded...
Pious Afghans rejoiced last week as their new king, Nadir, "the Afghan George Washington" (TIME, Oct. 21). re-established prohibition in harmony with the holy commandment of the Koran: God declareth unto you his signs, that ye may give thanks. 0 true believers, surely wine, and lots, and images, and diving arrows, are an abomination of the work of Satan; therefore avoid them, that you may prosper...
Everything so far seems satisfactory. The workers present an excellent cross-section of democracy. They give every evidence of enjoying the customary routine of industrious labor. Their conduct is satisfactory and has given no offence to the Vagabond. Casual inquiry into their lunch pails reveals little violation of the law, while their literature so far as the Vagabond's knowledge of reading French and Latin goes, is at present no threat to undergraduate morals...