Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jealous criticism. Such is the fate of Paavo Nurmi who comes to the Stadium on Friday for his last great race in America. Although he has been absolved technically from the recent charges made against him, his name is still under the shadow of abuse. The cry of graft cannot be stilled as instantly as it was raised...
Maritime Customs. Most of the import duties of China are collected and administered by foreigners, chiefly British. Since these revenues are needed to pay the interest on China's foreign loans, it was thought unwise to abandon them to the graft-ridden officialdom of the old Em- pire. Pseudo-Republican China resents this stricture on its sover- eignty...
...college, it goes without saying, can graft an education onto an unwilling student. The institution opens its doors as a place in which knowledge can be acquired. The acquisition, however, is dependent on the active cooperation of the candidate for a degree. Where such cooperation is not shown, the fault lies not with the college but with the student and his previous training. Although every college graduates a certain number of men who have only technically qualified for a degree, on the other hand it develops some men of the highest intellectual ability, who more than justify the claim that...
...graft" course which is skid-proof...
...have nothing more important to attack. Fearful as is the American electorate that somewhere votes are being bought and the will of the "Peepul" defeated, and vague as is the average man's knowledge of the intricacies of political machinery, the subject never fails to arouse suspicion of dishonesty, graft, fraud, and all the other manias that beset the zealous voter...