Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget does not balance. That is, the calculable revenues were 100 million dollars less than the 3,700 million dollars of certain expenditure. But both President and General refused to be worried by what they called a "paper" deficit...
...major sport in , U. S. schools, but it is still taught and practiced. Teachers still divide up the subject into various branches: viz., recital of poems, original oration, debate, the extemporaneous speech. The latter is always regarded as the most sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches to the platform, plunges into...
...Southern Democratic paper ever flayed Tammany as thoroughly as the Republican Chicago Tribune last week flayed the head of the Republican campaign in Chicago. It said...
...surgeons took away in all 60 sq. in. of Norman Douglas' skull, preserved them at the Toronto General Hospital. They are proof for a professional paper that Dr. Gaby is writing. Never before, so far as the two surgeons can learn from the medical literature, has an adult lost so much skull and lived. Nor children. Sometimes a baby is born without a skull top, dead...
...voice and dark caressing eyes. Marry fell promptly in love, and as promptly forgot the mysterious Jew. Long evenings he spent in the park loving Josephine's cooing chatter and warm caresses. Long days he tramped the streets bearing his optimistic letter of recommendation from the small town paper. Big town papers, unimpressed, turned him down...