Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone the new rules, but even the newest comments by Work and Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs of your local reputation and Mrs. J. De Riff Punkle will cut you every time you meet her at the linen counter. Such is the effect of bridge upon the mind American...
...live animals and keeping them caged or chained up as a show. . . . I am not speaking of zoos. There is much to be said against zoos, but I am speaking of the caging of animals as a private enterprise. . . . It is queer that curiosity leads to this . . . cruelty. It isn't, I suppose, for an Englishman to appeal to Americans to abate an abuse, but. . . to deprive wild animals of their freedom is a dreadful thing . . . a slow death...
...Isn't the United States Steel corporation in danger of being outclassed by other corporations headed by younger men? Isn't it possible that the directing heads of the United States Steel corporation are too old in view of the staid and stolid policies of the management? I mean this of course in the kindest...
...case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection to our looking at the record...
...doubt if any one will ever use them", H. H. Haines, coach of the Freshmen crew said when questioned, on this subject yesterday. "The idea isn't entirely fanciful, but I don't think there is anything like the saving of energy that they advertise, nor do I think they'll ever do a two mile course 25 lengths faster than they do now. The most important of these inventions is the sliding oar lock which is supposed to give an absolutely straight pull through. The idea is undoubtedly sound, but it is not likely to be widely adopted...