Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile jump in two hours, Tully performed a feat that has never been equaled. Please ask Mr. Tully why he didn't stop to light a cigaret or write a letter home after being kicked off that train, before catching the last coach. If Jim Tully ever saw a circus train he would know that the last coach of every circus train that ever moved a mile out of the yards was the railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over...
...Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" went away to Buchtel College (now the University of Akron) and to the University of Cincinnati. By the time he got back to Marion, Ohio, to build a home and practice...
...importance of quality below that of quantity and consequently directed her efforts toward magnifying the latter, allowing the former to dwindle to insignificance, she would have been guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts and which subjected the larger interests of the country to provincial considerations. What was best in the small...
Soon came a neophyte in modernism, saw the creation, glowed, murmured, "What a thought?sublime...
Bills Payable. A taxpayer saw in the newspapers that the Navy consumed 383,550 gallons of fuel oil and gasoline searching for the Dole flyers. Irate, he telegraphed the War Department, received an answer that he and other taxpayers would pay for those oils to the tune...