Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As far back in years as 1888 or '89 I, then a teacher in a public school in a small New York town (Bernhard's Bay) near my home town, became interested in this subject, and when my school of two rooms was polled it was learned that...
Now, in my estimation, the reason for this popularity of the wild rose, is because of its aggressive assertion of itself. It is thorny and disagreeable to the touch, a thing we do not want in a national flower. If it is picked, it wilts in a few minutes. It...
If the columbine were our national flower, every little immigrant even could have one growing in a tin can. . . .
The five types of currency (U. S. notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, national bank notes) are maintained. But the new bills (6 5/16 X 2 11/16 in.) are about two-thirds the size of the old (7 7/16 X 3⅛ in.). With between four and five...
Only by spectacular violence and bloodshed do local strikes attain national prominence. Last week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so...