Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a fable of the Bird and the Ink-Pot. The Bird inhabits a curious building on Bow Street, and during, the winter months refuses to be tempted from the comfort of his tiled nest, even when summoned by Telegram. The Ink-Pot's den is a short distance from the Bird's cage but what a gap it is in fact. Strangely enough, the Bird was originally drawn by Ink from its neighbor, but that is never admitted--not even by the Ink-Pot, whereupon the cover was clapped on; after a small tempest and flapping of wings...
...reported that one Freshman strayed into one of these parties and promptly fied when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while the few law students present hung disconsolately about the tea pot. But with the news spreading that Sunday teas in certain famous homes are very pleasant affairs more undergraduates may take advantage of the professors' "coming out" parties at the Union...
Apparently, if Harvard is a typical example, American colleges are rapidly becoming melting pots within "the melting pot" and their function has changed from local to national education. Or, if we return to our pansy bed, it has become a mass of varying color such as might be expected from a government package of experimental seed...
...vivid flash comes the realization that men are atoms living on the hardened crust of a boiling pot--on a tiny ball itself whirling among countless similar balls, according to one vast plan. Today the earth merely trembles, the seismograph vibrates, and the scientist asks: "Somewhere...
...have only $10 in the world and are playing poker with a man you have never seen before. On the first deal he holds a pat hand. You have three eights before the draw. There is fifty cents in the pot. He bets a quarter. What are you going...