Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame. His name is Andrew W. Mellon. . . . I want to call the President's attention to the fact he has a responsibility over the head of Mr. Mellon and it is therefore up to him to remove Mr. Mellon and . . . to get a Smedley Butlerf or somebody like him who means to enforce...
...judicial question: What was the value of the "smell" testimony of a Senator who knows nothing about liquor from the standpoint of personal imbibation? Does experience as a chemist qualify him as an expert on alcoholic odors? It was pointed out on the Senate floor that gold paint smells like bananas but it is not bananas...
...work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...
...advantages of the two solutions are obvious. For the comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
...device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...