Word: mores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is considered an easy theme, much easier than that of two years ago-"THE COLORING OF THE MOUNTAIN BECOMES MORE BRILLIANT"-a stumper which proved difficult to get into the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables, in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables (TIME, Feb. 6...
"I think a fellow who would pay $1,000,000 for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner...
Eight out of eleven Oregonians took off their jerseys, played with their bare arms sticking out of their pads. They got one touchdown on a Florida pass but Quarterback Crabtree of Florida, used to warm weather, trickled 81 yards through them, and Ed Sauls and Red McEwen made two more...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed...
In the corporate title the "& Sons" is far from being a fiction. The four Smith boys now run the business, Jay as President, Bernard as Engineer, Owen as Buyer, Hamilton as General Factotum. Jay, who resembles his father but is more businesslike, was a real water baby. He ran passengers...