Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal...
...sincerely beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen of the Browning Club; I have taken too long in expressing . . . May I quote from the editorial which launches--no, one doesn't launch a tree, does one . . . but this isn't a tree any more...
Freshmen coming to College are eager to learn, they want to know the why and wherefores of traditions, customs and organizations. Soon, however, they find out that curiously isn't the thing for a Dartmouth man and by the time that they are Sophomores they are enthusiastic about nothing. Who ever heard of a Dartmouth Senior all a tingle to get out in the world to do things and find out about things...
...liked "No, No, Nanette," there isn't much point in seeing The "Queen High" imitation of it. The music can be had on phonograph records, and the wise cracks, though funny in their setting, aren't pointed enough to repeat at Christmas parties. If you didn't like "No, No, Nanette," you'll be bored by this...
...preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step forward over driving an automobile than driving an auto was to clucking to Old Bess between the shafts of the one-horse shay...