Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they acquired virtually the sanctity of banknotes. Two of the drafts, indeed, were cashed before their illegitimate origin was discovered; on the third?the $225,000 draft to the Pueblo bank?the Chase bank refused payment in order to make a test case, go into court and turn the problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that...
Said Writer White: "The Texas Tammany boys not only tell the taxpayers to go to hell, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide them with a handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...
...Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where the Institution has other solar stations. Last week Dr. Abbot informed Betty Jean's father that he would go to comparatively cool Washington and work in his astrophysical laboratory. Mr. Greeley could go to Table Mountain. On the way to relieve them from their servitude to Science were Mr. & Mrs. L. O. Sordahl and Mr. A. G. Frolland...
Personality. Physique, dress, manners, quality of voice, choice of language and characteristic social relations all go to make your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...
Smart Goldfish. Goldfish are smart enough to go to the nearest food supply, found Kansas University's Raymond Holder Wheeler and T. J. Perkins, who tried to fool the fish...