Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...
Senator Johnson's solace in defeat was consent of the Senate to consider the dam again first thing next autumn. A resolution by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for a quintet of engineers to examine and report on Boulder Dam once more this summer, was also passed. This report will doubtless be decisive...
Additional evidence that the glittering key, outward and visible sign of learning and erudition, is still at least as highly desired as those inestimable but nebulous aids to the bond house such as "contacts" and "activities," is revealed in the proposal to increase membership in the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from 45 to 65 from a class...
...young man in the eastern school and the Wisconsin co-ed who turned down phi "Beta" keys were seeking to be new and different they certainly succeeded but one must feel some doubts as to what it will avail them. The selected on ore the most worth while honorary societies in American university and colleges to use for there for purpose. If they really were conseientions in the reasons they give for not wanting the key we must come to the conclusions that their judgement are a little warped they are idealistic beyond all hope or reason; or else, they...
...stepped with sure tread from the car. Cameras clicked jerkily; the young shouted their welcome; reporters, notebook in hand, mused on childish love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...