Word: regimens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty years ago Father Frederick H. Sill of the Order of the Holy Cross (Episcopal) procured an old farmhouse near Kent, Conn., enrolled 18 pupils and three masters, founded Kent School. The first night of school the headmaster cooked scrambled eggs which the boys served, the beginning of a regimen of self-help that has continued until today, when Kent is a flourishing school of 200 boys. Kent teaches self-reliance, directness of purpose and simplicity of life, in a quiet rural community...
...about 65, I had another bad day. Instantly I analyzed the cause. My secretary, who had charge of my office regimen", told me that cigars came and went with too much rapidity-proved that I had the habit of smoking 25 cigars a day. . . . I've never smoked since...
...merits of The Mikado itself nothing need be said. This particular edition is elaborate in setting and interpretation. The production automatically becomes one of the necessities to every right-minded amusement regimen...
Fertile California has yielded yet another precocious growth. Another Helen, this time surnamed Jacobs, has been reared on exactly the same regimen as "Poker" Wills. She has won the Pacific Coast championships in both the junior and girls' divisions. Aged 15, she is being coached for the national junior event in Philadelphia next month by the same man, W. C. Fuller, who primed Poker Face to win that title in 1921, also aged...
...deft solution. The railways are a whole flock of such geese. During the War they were seized and peremptorily ordered to lay twice a day. They could have as much food as they desired, but they might not leave the nest. And when the War was passed, this regimen had seriously impaired both the morale and the constitutions of the geese. The geese and the gooseherds cried for normalcy...