Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But?we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...
...straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral, Rostand, Maeterlinck (of whose The Life of the Bee he was the direct inspiration) -but to the end he retained his superhuman patience, humility, cheerfulness. The French Government purchased his harmas as a public museum and living laboratory, and a movement...
...Louis reporter charged that a " diploma mill" centering in Missouri was turning out bogus high school and medical college diplomas for a consideration. Howard Sidener, U. S. circuit attorney, started an inquiry. William P. Sachs, former examiner of the Missouri School Department voluntarily appeared at Mr. Sidener's office and confessed to having taken part in such a ring. He named two doctors of St. Louis and Kansas City as members of the clique, and admitted that in ten years he had sold over 1,000 high school certificates (necessary prelude to medical diplomas and state licenses...
...team was the outstanding event in an afternoon of scrimmages at Soldier Field yesterday. There was not a team on the field that did not see active service. Early in the afternoon the Freshman A team passed in through the Stadium gate as grist for Coach Fisher's University mill. Later in the afternoon Coach Knox's second team was called in. And outside the stadium, the remainder of the Freshman squad scrimmaged the dormitory teams. It was a busy...
...principal reason for the comparative gains made by the South in cotton mill operations has been the continual and expensive trouble with foreign radical labor groups in the New England mill towns. In fact, it is to a large extent Massachusetts capitalists and architects who are now building the Southern mills...