Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME of Aug. 19, (P-47) the adage is quoted in its popular form, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, Teach." In view of your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other...
...battleship crews for the efficiency pennant, highest naval prize, fondly called the "meatball." Secretary Adams knew no uninspired solution of the tie would do. Last week, inspired at last, the Navy Department announced that when the Maryland and New Mexico are apart on separate cruises this year, each may fly the pennant. When they are together in the same fleet, the New Mexico shall have it on odd numbered days of the month, the Maryland on even numbered ones. This compromise seemed Solomonic indeed-until the crew of the Maryland realized that the New Mexico would have the "meatball" seven...
...May i, 1898, Manila Bay was thunderous with gunfire. Weaving skeins of smoke twined about the embattled fleets. There lay the Spanish defenders, here the besieging U. S. Pacific Fleet, a brood of assorted fighting craft clustered about their proud flagship U. S. S. Olympia. On the battle-stripped U. S. Revenue Cutter McCullouch one Edward Walker Harden, a young newsgatherer on a lark (with Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon), swelled with patriotic rapture as he watched Spanish ship after Spanish ship founder. To him the dimly-seen U. S. S. Olympia, hulled five times and her rigging shot away...
...Olympia from the Government, proposed to recondition her and anchor her in the Potomac near Washington, where hordes of sightseers could poke fun at her outdated guns or gravely consider the footprints on her bridge, outlined in brass tacks, where Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey stood when he said: "You may fire when ready, Gridley...
...women trend has swept the country is now demonstrated by the increasing number of big railroads which have felt themselves obliged to print "Smoking Permitted" on their menus. The exhalation of smoke from feminine lungs is becoming, in the aggregate, a mighty blast of fashion which railroad economists may not ignore. Railroads which have already trimmed their sails to catch this blast...