Word: hastening
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...want an autobiography, briefly here it is: In spite of being a Socialist I am of respectable American ancestry. I was born in Marion, Ohio, and while still young worked for Senator Harding. I have since recovered. I am a graduate of Princeton University, but hasten to acquit that estimable university or its at that time President, Woodrow Wilson, of any part in making me a Socialist. I however learned there to love The New Freedom and unfortunately could not turn off my affection at the psychological moment...
...also a graduate of Union Theological Semmary, and a Presbyterian clergyman. I was at one time associate pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City and afterwards was head of the American Parish Among Immigrants of the Presbyterian Church of New York.. I hasten to acquit any of these agencies for deliberate participation in my downfall. I am now editor of the 'World Tomorrow,' lecturer in the Rand School, Stump speaker, soap boxer and temporarily paroled in my own custody by the Mount Vernon police court. Mount Vernon does not refer to Washington's birthplace...
...Reference is made to the example of Columbus, Ohio, where 3000 business men have agreed to work on a farm one day a week throughout the summer. The various boards of trade are urged also, wherever they have opportunity to do so, through a traffic or transportation bureau, to hasten the movement of farm machinery, fertilizers and seeds...
From this it ought to be apparent; even to the most obtuse, that a reply to the communication on psychical research must necessarily defend the indefensible ignorance of the CRIMSON on this one subject at least; and I hasten to suggest that this is not likely to be done by one who is so dull as to "understand that Lodge, and all others seriously interested in the study, place very small importance on the phenomena produced by mediums!" SYDNEY A. GROSS...
...quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...