Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...
...retaliation the peasant farmer is growing less grain than he can, because: 1) he cannot buy anything with the money he gets from his grain, and 2) the Government is levying heavy grain taxes upon him by forcing him to sell most of his crop at a low Government-fixed price (to keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government...
...Borrowed Love, similar neuroses lead to similar adjustments, but with far less convincing effect. John Carter was a virile, mighty halfback at the University. But in later, married life he contracted influenza which left him obsolete as a proper husband. Considerate of his wife's resulting deprivations, he persuades her to allow him to introduce Tom Bradford, potent theatrical manager...
Turn-of-the-century automobile owners considered a magneto-less automobile useless. Full of praise were they for the inventor of the gadget which supplied the spark, which exploded the gas, which made their cars go. The Bosch Magneto was referred to as "heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate...
...best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft" Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think of people reading of what she likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does not know her alphabet very well. She was taught to sing...