Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a student in chemistry to graduate with a knowledge altogether too small of the interpretation of the past by history and literature and of the present by science as a whole. The correlation of the manifold branches of chemical science, the broad study of the explanation and improvement of the earth and its inhabitants on the basis of physics and chemistry is ample justification for the establishment of a tutorial system in the Department...
Fully aware of his role as Dry Hope- the man President Hoover expects to pull Prohibition out of its manifold troubles- Mr. Youngquist stated that he had never taken a drink himself. He added: "I am a dry politically and personally, but I am not a fanatic on the subject...
Edgar Wallace, whose novels, in England, are so manifold that they are called "Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that...
These provide among themselves a manifold sales organization. To them airmen last week felt certain would soon be conjoined three plane manufacturers not yet entirely under Hoyt or Keys control...
Under Dr. Wilson the Board's activities are manifold. It maintains a drumfire of publicity in behalf of Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...