Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands...
...Key is Arthur Caesar's play about a literary man (played by McKay Morris) who orates upon the freedom of the married woman only to wax illogically furious upon discovering that his wife (played by Florence Eldridge) had once been free. From then on, it is every man's wife for him. Naturally there was much to be said and suffered before a harassed audience could steal away on the first night without embarrassing the well-liked playwright...
Roger was consigned again to the limbo of medieval credulity. Dean Robert Bell Burke of Pennsylvania, after four years' labor with the key discovered by a colleague, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only...
Dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key, he talked with students. He quoted figures to show that in 1916, 12.3 per million population died of cirrhosis of the liver, while in 1921 only 7.4 per million were victims of that disease. He was given a few minutes in religion courses, and allowed a portion of the chapel time. He then demanded that a snap-vote be taken. Sixty two voted in favor of strict enforcement, 39 for modification, 20 for repeal. He entered Upsala in the prohibition column of his notebook and went on to a nearby college...
...From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a 'key,' would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER...