Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pneumonia and tuberculosis combined. I do not say that Saratoga, when completed as a spa and health resort, could by itself cure or relieve any large proportion of these sufferers, but it could be of service to thousands. I do not like to see a stone put in the path of those who are endeavoring to accomplish what I think will be a great boon to the chronically ill, and at a cost that is not comparable with what is going to be spent upon new prisons for our criminals...
...able, bushy-mustached James Stuart. He it was who arranged, on a plot of approximately 600 sq. ft., Miss Constable's breathtaking Yellow Garden which won the large silver cup presented by the Royal Horticultural Society. Pale ferns, towering yellow acacias and mimosas hung over a narrow path, accented with deep orange clumps of a kind of South African flowering pineapple, professionally known as imantophyllum, more popularly Clivia...
Plans have also been made for two new roads through the Harvard holdings, Getchell announced. One will follow a straighter path than that taken by the road leading from the site of the new Freshman quarters, while the second, in the shape of a "U", will connect the main highway and the right of way leading to the University quarters...
...grain of salt. Fourteen days have elapsed since Mahatma Gandhi began his pilgrimage to the sea. Four more are necessary before the one hundred and fifty miles are completed and general civil disobedience can be inaugurated by the manufacture of salt in defiance of the British monopoly. The path of the leader and the seventy-eight faithful does not lack cheers, flowers, triumphal arches...
...Aiming his attack at secondary schools in particular, Mr. Taft declared that a great many students are admitted to the Universities of the West with certificates from schools "that ought to be closed by law." Parental interference, school boards, and money stringencies all play their part to block the path of progress. The whims of individual educators are unavailing without a solid foundation of education in the old style; Latin, Greek, and Mathematics...