Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear that Oxford will feed him with sentimental ideas about Anglo-Saxondom or inoculate him with any brand of imperialism. Much nonsense of that sort is being written in this country at present, with quotations of certain rash utterances of that amazing genius, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes saw one thing clearly, that mutual understanding between this country, Great Britain and the dominions, having a common language and, to a peculiar degree, a common culture, was most desirable in the interests of civilization. Oxford is a forum where discussion is frank and open, where daring radicals and devoted defenders of lost causes...
...Warren, F. A., U. S. A., instructor in motor mechanical had received his promotion to a captaincy. Captain Warren came to the University as an instructor in the Field Artillery Unit late in September. He was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1917, and during the war saw service in France with the 21st Field Artillery...
...ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once saw flying the American flag in the harbor of Rio, forty-eight were commanded by Cape Coders...
...course of a long automobile ride we a saw a very interesting system of open brown-coal workings, in the district near Hallo. This "Braunkohl" is taken from thick deposits by steam shovels, and is sent in various directions by cable ways, some of considerable length, to the plants where by-products are recovered and the carbon residue pressed into fuel briquettes. Roughly half of the coal burned in Germany is processed before being used as fuel. On this trip one of the large Haber process plants for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen was seen from the road. It was between...
...noted at the beginning, this is merely a series or superficial observations, too slight to afford a basis for any deductions or conclusions. We saw nothing that would lead us to question the validity of the various thoughtful accounts of economic and social conditions of which appropriate periodicals have recently carried a full share