Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion peaunts are assets to this country a lot more than Indians are. In North Carolina, where you say the Indians have increased 34% in a decade, peanuts are grown more than anywhere else in the U. S. I leave it to any North Carolina business man whether he wouldn't rather have more peanuts than more Indians...
...vacation has done me a lot of good. I am in first class physical condition. And, while the work of the Executive increases every year, it is not beyond the capacity of one man to discharge. There is no way that it can be much "relieved. The people accept no substitute for the President. In my own experience I have found it most helpful to find out what the Constitution and law require the Executive to do and confine myself to doing that...
When, at 291, he graduated from college, the Carnegie Steel Plant at Pittsburgh offered him a job. Officials of the plant felt that he would be a useful addition to the company football team, one of the paid sand-lot elevens that were then flourishing. Mr. Edwards, sensing that he had not been called on for his knowledge of the steel business, refused. He coached for two years at Princeton and Annapolis, and used a whistle at many famous football games; a friend suggested a political career and Mr. Edwards, acceding, secured a job in the New York City Department...
...mountaineers are a hardy lot...
...What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery and into brawny thoraces; frost accumulates on silver buckets and shakers; glasses tink; bottles crash on skulls; one girl smokes cigars, nude; another refuses $100. After many sultry but incessantly swift, surprising events, involving a lot of good Mexican history and accurate swearing, Govett Bradier boards a tanker for the U. S., discouraged with the oil industry and possessed of the illuminating discoveries that all the women who ever appealed to him were alike; that none did him any good...