Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear much talk of the various candidates and of their policies. Among them all, Mr. Hoover seems to come closest to the standard that we have set for this high office. Between now and the convention, however, I recommend that we hold ourselves unpledged and uncommitted to any particular candidate...
Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern of holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves...
...right) to bring her up. They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...
...offered a good history of the services rendered to the U. S. by the U. S. press. Nor, apparently, did any U. S. reporter think any of his stories accurate, terse or publically beneficial enough to warrant entering the competition for that particular prize...
...have been giving serious thought to the casting of our first vote at a presidential election next fall. And at the same time, we became convinced that the situation at it is, is unsatisfactory, not only for the country at large, but for the college man in particular...