Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy were in the habit of indulging in spectacles, it might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive...
...Democrat, v. Senator Richard P. Ernst, Republican. Kentucky is usually Democratic, although it now has two Republican Senators, elected along with the Harding and Coolidge landslides of 1920 and 1924. Mr. Barkley is against betting on horse races, otherwise Kentucky might be more certain to return to its old habit of electing Democratic Senators...
...must hope that it will help to remedy the most unsatisfactory condition in the social life of the University. The students seem to have forgotten that gregarious animals and civilized men feed together, and that meals have a social as well as a nutritive value. Under the recent habit of eating around they are not aware of the pleasant hours, the interesting talk and the lifelong friendships that come from the club tables of former times. The University strove to maintain the opportunity for these things until the general preference for hasty meals in different places made it no longer...
...referee skipped between the two saying, "Don't do that; don't do that." Wills was the offender; in every break he swung over illicit punches; he hit backhanded; he butted Sharkey with his hard, black head. Perhaps Wills only did these things from force of habit; he has long been famed in the ring for his sharp practices, as also for his tireless pursuit of a match with Dempsey. But old black Wills will pursue no more heavyweight champions; he was tired; even his foulest punches had no sting. In the 13th round, after ten warnings...
...more conveniently located places could be provided, where students could get an attractive and scientifically correct diet, it would certainly make for the better health of those students who now 'eat around'. Many of the cases which come under my observation can be traced directly to this unfortunate habit...