Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past year brought disaster to many of our people. The Mediterranean fruit fly, invading the State of Florida, threatens to cause a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars annually...
...District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers the next day secured their release on a writ of habeas corpus from...
...average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste, socially superior to any one they can meet in any of the newer countries...
...their contribution to the overemphasis problem in the form of ten suggested pep messages to be delivered to the boys a few minutes before the game. At present writing no statistics are available as to the relative number of telegrams delivered to winning and to losing teams during the past season, but if there is a possibility of sales arguments in such figures one can be sure that Western Union actuaries will soon supply them...
Murray describes Michigan as a team with tremendous power which, very much like Harvard, has so far failed to click. The past two weeks of inactivity, he feels, should put Michigan on edge for the Harvard game