Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied biology must realize that peace is a purely human concept, and that nature is rather partial to the idea of struggle and competition, and that it is doubtful whether Congressman Ludlow can reverse this state of things by a Constitutional amendment, or that our college students help matters much by refusing to join the R.O.T.C...
...uncle learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
Infected by the general excitement, U. S. foreign correspondents became fairly spooky themselves. "There is fairly reliable talk," cabled the Chicago Daily New's Edgar Ansel Mowrer at 7? a word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
Last week Eton and Harrow played again at the exclusive Lord's Cricket Ground near London. Harrow, for the first time since 1908, won. It was too much for Harrovians, young and old, and they rushed on to the field to carry off the winning team on their shoulders. Some how a few Etonians got in the way, and be fore the enthusiasm had died down many an Eton topper had been smashed in and many an Harrovian umbrella busted. It was a very unseemly, frightfully un-British brawl...