Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Angry Senators. Chairman Huston postponed to another day a cutting out of political underbrush in Florida. Instead last week he accepted an invitation of Senator Walcott of Connecticut to lunch at the Capitol where he met many a Republican Senator. Each brought the same grievance.
Beaverishness on a gigantic scale was manifest last week when President Hoover, energetic engineer, unfolded at Cincinnati his administration's plan for developing U. S. inland waterways into one vast closeknit system of cheap transportation. The same instinct which sets him to building toy dams and clearing out rock...
The facts on which Fall was tried were agreed on both sides. Fall and Doheny, gold prospectors together in the old West, had been friends for 43 years. Doheny had approached Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, for an oil lease. At the peak of negotiations-Nov. 30, 1921-he...
The wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood at...
The "Dance of Death" has been described as a "single piece, a long procession of all orders of men, from the Pope to the lowest of human beings. Each figure has his partner, Death, the meagre spectre who leads the dance, shaking his remembering hour glass. The old peet, Lydgate...