Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with a reparations debt of $466. Even in the U. S. there are babes to whom $466 is quite a pot of money. Still, to a really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even $466 or 1,957 gold marks may not seem onerous. Certainly nothing plaintive was said last week by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and chief...
Wheeler−"devotes himself wholly to pot-shooting. ... In a floor fight he is a total loss...
...latest of his pot-boiling series of-so-called investigations of representative American college existence, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts '07, burlesque artist extraordinary, has succeeded in arousing Harvard--or at least the editors of the Harvard Crimson--to hot indignation and to a vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...
...plan, as outlined so far by University authorities, sufficiently clear to render lengthy discussion here unnecessary. Briefly it considers the present social organization of Harvard College, allowing as it does every student unlimited range and absolute freedom to choose and change his associates, greatly preferable to any forced melting pot scheme such as that envisaged by the House Plan. It has been unable to discover, more-over, educational advantages of the new arrangement which might offset this loss in social flexibility. Finally the CRIMSON regrets the philanthropy which, blind to the notorious inadequacy of tutorial staffs, professorial salaries, and even...
Vice President Queeney described the "generator" thus: "It consists of an aluminum pot in which is set a nest of stationary thin-curved plates radiating from a central core. The pot is heated by the exhaust from the engine. The fuel is drawn from a standard carburetor through the inside of the pot over the surface of the warm plates, where it is converted into a dry gas and there it passes through the intake manifold into the cylinders...