Word: insect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugurated. ... On that day corrupt and sinister financial conspiracies . . . took possession of the Government . . . bribes . . . scaly hands . . . conspirators. . . . "The first act of Coolidge was to approve the policies of the Harding Administration. . . . Coolidge continued at the head of the Department of Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive as a Boston oyster stranded on the beach in the month of August. . . . "Coolidge...
...well suppose that Author Lehmann wisely creates out of her own experiences. Like Judith Earle she has come early to an artist's isolation, her past has already made the "one great circle." Then to the question "What next?" her book is the answer-dusty like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann is the daughter of English R. C. Lehmann, famed oarsman, noted writer, member of the staff of Punch; she is a cousin of Owen Davis, famed U. S. playwright. Bred in Bourne...
...more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...
...lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
TIME, in good faith, unguardedly, paraphrased idyllic insect states-ments of Custer Park, S. D., officials as reported by the Associated Press; will hereafter be more alert...