Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the people of Massachusetts found the state act very satisfactory. The great mass of the population concentrated in the cities appreciated the value of the extra hour of daylight after business hours. The farmers, particularly those dealing in milk, were the only ones to protest, in spite of the fact that the confusion due to the difference between railroad time and daylight time was born almost entirely by the city-dwellers...
...States toward Mexico. Insult has followed insult, murder has followed murder until the title of "Civis Americans" within walking distance of the Rio Grande has almost been the equivalent of a death warrant. It seems ages since we commenced "watchfully waiting." If there were ever any virtue in that milk and water policy it has long since passed away...
...debating as a College activity. In one form or another it has always been a permanent part of college life. It is a matter of tradition that the venerable Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard started with the two-fold object of enabling its members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating...
Technology, along with the other colleges of New England, realizes that the Des Moines Student Volunteer Conference was a hoax and, except from the missionary worker's point of view, was an utter failure. There is no use in crying over spilt milk (in this case amounting to several thousand dollars) but it would be well to find out who was at fault in giving our delegation a false impression of the conference, so that we may avoid a repetition of the blunder...