Word: leavenings
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...companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since 1925 he has been residing at Leaven worth (Kan.), where he has become an astute needleworker, the editor of th? prison magazine New Era, and an advocate of breeding a race of runts to do the world's work...
...ministry, for the redemption of human character. But it is not quite all mediaevalism with mystical Mr. Cram, for he is personally attracted farther in that direction than he would think it necessary or possible for others to go. He describes Gothic as a form of the leaven now working for "a new and wonderful order...
...good in themselves, as representatives of that lump which American intelligence and native wit must eventually leaven, together they have the power of brute force, coupled with complete dulness--and that force--though like the carnivorous dinosaur, its one time proponent, it eventually die, can, like the name carnivorous dinosaur, cause a lot of trouble. One hopes then, and with all sincerity that Tunney will like a good Marine, defend his country against mental eclipse by refraining from establishing a precedent which could well mean the beginning of the Ivory...
...Crimson (undergraduate daily) approved the new regulations in this curious backhand fashion: "The function of the University is to produce gentlemen?in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...
...disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere more enervating than that of the college whose members approximate a single type. The function of the University is to produce gentlemen, in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...