Word: salient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the college year 1935-36, tobacco to the tune of $46,000 was smoked away by undergraduates, a sum capable of paying the tuition and board of some forty odd students. This salient fact is based chiefly on the assumption that about 70% of the student body are partisans of Demon Nicotine. The figures released by Roy L. Westcott, Manager of University Dining Halls, show that in the Eliot House Grill and the House Dining Halls together, $11,185 in cigarette sales was taken in last year...
...first book was Pardoners in 1005. After the wrote nothing for publication that wasn't preset somewhere. Old timers still believe that Bill Favor and tom Santachi: Hero and badman of salient fought the most realistic fight the cameras will record when they made the original picture veracity Rex Beach's Spoilers Rollins bounder Alpha Beeach with an honorary degree and later with presidency of its alumni association...
Indeed the principle of the agreements threatens one of the salient points of the American constitutional scheme, for its takes from Congress the power to control tariff matters and gives it over to the whims of the executive branch. As Mr. Hull's treaties were published one by one, people whose interests had been vitally affected found themselves pushed out the door, denied hearings, and treated generally like unruly schoolboys if they voiced legitimate protests. Such dictatorial tactics may be acceptable in times of emergency but should never be allowed to get a foothold in the long-run system...
...Salient Significance...
Looking slightly worn and in need of the well-earned vacation which will start this Thursday and last until the middle of October, Mr. Greene singled out yesterday morning what he considered the salient historical significance of the Tercentenary. More than being a birthday Celebration, it was an occasion on which Harvard shared with other institutions of the world and the general public the supreme feeling of faith and confidence in the endurance of higher education. It was an occasion which proved that such institutions as Harvard would hold their influential position, despite social or economic upheaval...