Word: milk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scout hatchet, drinking cups, sleeve less sweaters, knickerbockers, an oiled sheet (for a tent), a fox terrier (for luck). No man molested them - neither bandit, desperado, nor escaped Siberian convict. They lived on the land, eating black bread and water, berries, mushrooms, honey, milk. After five years in Russia (they were working on "educational-economics" at famed Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural...
...until time came for the wheels to be put on. Weller was informed that no one makes wagon-wheels anymore and for a time it was thought that the building of the engine would have to be discontinued. Finally the Club tried to purchase some wheels from the Whiting Milk Co. but there were no milk-wagon wheels left. The engine was completed, however, when the carpenter gathered up some wheels from various second hand establishments...
Marion Talley wants to milk the cows, so she is leaving the brilliant glitter of the Diamond Horse shoe-forever. According to her story, Miss Talley was suddenly inspired to snub a new contract from the Metropolitan. She is a fatalist and destiny calls her to the soil where she once spent three months of her childhood...
...from $16,000,000. The new figure hardly reflects its earning capacity, which is probably from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 per year. But the U. S. Government collects income tax on no such earnings, for the unpurchasable Times is not operated as a dividend milk cow. The formula of its success, the secret of its prestige, is its policy of accepting only the best, and paying...
...citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk, were Child Gompers and cousin." Then says Dr. Jones: "What would you have...