Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady whose home is now the White House has defined a home as follows: "A place where people who love each other can spend their leisure hours, and a certain number of working hours, happily together...
Last week, Secretary Wilbur, speaking in Washington to the American Council on Education, cheered Catholics who would not like the department, chagrined the National Education Association by saying: "The place of the national government is not that of supplying funds in large amounts for carrying on the administrative functions of education in the communities, but to develop methods, ideals, and procedures and to present them, to be taken on their merits. . . . The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from education can, it seems to me, be accomplished without disturbing the initiative and responsibility...
...well as Democrat, is Jouett Shouse, that to him is given major credit for inducing the G. O. P. to go to his city for its convention last year. Lawyer, farmer, banker, son of a Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there...
Eight days in advance, said M. Judet, the French army was warned by a German deserter who described the gas cylinders already in place in the German lines, and even produced one of the rudimentary gas masks which had been issued to the German troops. This information was brought to General Ferry of the French army, whose division was just about to move out of the line...
...more than 50 people witnessed the Manger feats last week in the amateur weight-lifting championships of the U. S. The reason for that was the bouts were held in Manhattan's German-American Athletic Club, an out-of-the-way little place on an island full of less static entertainment than grunting men lifting lifeless burdens...