Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards the two counts charging John Philip with maintaining a public nuisance, the Judge instructed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, since none of the questionable beverages was sold...
...this continent. One or two eclipses occur annually*; but many take place in out-of-the-way places; and one spot is not thrown twice in the shadow of a complete eclipse oftener than once in every few hundred years. The January eclipse will stretch over a region where none such has been seen in the memory of living man. Its narrow band of shadow will start at a point somewhat west of Duluth and stretch eastward, going out to sea across the southern shores of Connecticut. The southern boundary of the eclipse will include Duluth (Minn.), Menominee and Frankfort...
...coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour's torture. He hammered the Firpo brisket, he split the Firpo lips; he drew pants, heaves, quantities of gore. New Jersey does not permit decisions. None was needed...
...measure for bringing harmony out of incongruity in the Washington be caus, the proposed bill has its decided merits. But by what straining of the imagination the new ministry can be called one of education, none but Senators and Congressmen can see. It should rather he called, what it obviously is, "The Ministry of Odds and Ends". Education should be left to another measure which will treat it with the adequacy its importance deserves...
...Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism. Such things have been. But to upbraid it for including a man of any religion or of none in the administrative board of the corporation - one rubs one's eyes! A "Fellow" is chosen because he is a professional and business man of distinguished ability, because he is a patriotic American and a loyal alumnus. His religion has about as much importance in "establishing a precedent...