Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Island (1923-26). Another recommendation was Major Curran's standing and acquaintance among tycoons of finance & industry. The frank object was to enlist for anti-Prohibition a roster of wealth and respectability comparable to what was recruited to "put over" Prohibition. This, it was predicted, would be a hard thing to do, because, regardless of their private convictions and habits, few wealthy citizens are willing to jeopardize their stand-in-the-community by pronouncing publicly against Prohibition. To be openly against Prohibition is unconventional. Moreover, many a rich man, untroubled by Prohibition himself, says it is "good...
...Sagging and swaying so that its actual dimensions were hard to judge, the Senate's flood control bill rolled through the House last week by a final vote of 254 to 91. Then it went to a House-Senate conference. President Coolidge continued his long-range fight upon what he had called its "extortionate" features...
Plants, Lamps.. Plants are hard working members of society. Dr. John Morris Arthur of Boyce Thompson Institute, New York tried to fool them into working all night as well as all day by turning on 48 1,000 watt incandescent lamps. He fooled clover and buckwheat all of the time; lettuce and radish 17 hours of the time; tomatoes rebelled, died...
...fashioned musical comedy is complete unless it has in it a female baritone and a male chorus whose elfin members are capable of shouting, marching and even hitting one another, though not hard. Present Arms is complete and newfashioned. It has one good song...
...Tufts freshman team is reputed to be a hard-hitting out fit and is expected to put the pitching staff of the Harvard 1931 diamond forces to a severe test. E. b. Samborski '31 is a likely starter on the mound for the Crimson, although W. H. MacHale '31 and Robert Gilmore '31 may also hurl. The first year team has won two games in as many starts, defeating Middlesex by an 18 to 0 count, and Groton by a 9 to 5 score...