Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ On becoming Emperor: "Look at Alexander, for instance. After he has conquered Asia, he declares himself to be the son of Jupiter, and the whole East believes him, save only his mother and Aristotle and a handful of Athenian pedants. But if I, nowadays, were to declare myself the...
Rare is the day that brings no new plume to John Harvard's hat. A new ambassador, a handful of Senators, a tribute from Guam, something to enhance the glory of Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however...
Four distinguished gentlemen of the Supreme Court of Tennessee finally got around to a decision in the case of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, willful violator of the local statute against teaching in state-supported schools "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught...
En Route to Washington Prince Chichibu's special halted at Baltimore and His Imperial Highness stepped upon the platform as another special rolled in bound for Trenton, N. J. Therein a lean-faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman...
The 300-mile trail system of the Appalachian Club in the White Mountains, mostly on rough, remote and storm-swept ridges, is substantially the by product of the brain and muscle of a few business and professional men. It is their avocation, their hobby, their dream Comparatively only a handful...