Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the revolution in 1911, oldtimers told me, the profession fell upon evil days and two handed chopping such as you describe took the place of the neat, single-handed slicing with the result that often two and three blows were needed to complete the matter...
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...Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
...place to start housecleaning," cried La Follette, "is in our own household. . . . This is a legislative chamber and not a club or a secret organization...
...cannot help feeling that, if a faculty member is detailed for this work there will be a great danger; his business experience would be, of necessity limited, because, if he is a good teacher, he cannot have afforded to divide his allegiance between the cloister and the market-place. To discuss vocations intelligently, one must have a detailed knowledge of the subject. The vocational guidance director must be as much an authority on his subject as the professor is on whatever subject he may be discussing. I do feel, however, that the holder of this position should be thoroughly acquainted...