Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least observe one day out of the week. We do not have shows, roadhouses and dance-halls going at full swing as in Ohio. Our citizens have a proper regard for the Sabbath. . . . It was in the State of Ohio and the City of Cincinnati that I first saw women drinking in public and I have never yet seen this in West Virginia...
...died alone, at 44, shadowed by broken hopes, crying, "Let's fight on!" His comrades, echoing his cry, shouted of new vigor, new conquests to Communism. They saw one more hope, one more strong leader gone from a cause which, in the U. S., is, at least for the present, hopeless, leaderless...
...months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests-$10,500 worth-in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where he was given a pick and shovel and told to pursue the tasks which he had so often assigned to others. Warden Snook, however, does...
Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai and the Southern Chinese who are trying to capture it with the idea that Britain has a real army in China, will soon have 30,000 men at or near Shanghai, and means to protect her interests permanently.* How could all this be better said to Chinese than...
...Harvard probably will not care to return to Lafayette and Bloomington in 1928 because of the small gate receipts. Princeton ought to find that no reason for not being, willing to play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums and larger by 5,000 than the Yale bowl...