Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bell sans tongue, a saw sans teeth...
...last week recommended for each of them. Mr. Hoover enjoyed listening to the fine things that were said about all of them. Mr. Hoover was neither stiff nor irregular. Even small-eyed Senator Watson, who loudly denounced Mr. Hoover before the nomination, was invited to appear. The people who saw him were glad to talk discreetly to the press-it was invaluable publicity. When Mr. Hoover arrived in Florida, the prevailing opinion as to the rest of the Cabinet...
...prospect, therefore, is a storehouse of all knowledge, a service station to all puzzled learners. Keen-minded citizens saw in so vast a plan no little nobility, some little obscurity...
Many a student has read stories of college life and believed them...who never saw such life on the campus that is his (or her) home. Yet somehow this inconsistency is never noticed Books, the library, football, basketball, a show or two, tea dances. Citizens, studying, sleeping, eating these with a few variations make up the life of the college student. Aside from romances connected perhaps with football or basketball, these are never touched upon in magazine college life. The exceptions, and not the rule, give the periodical reader his impression of campus life...
...special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom. And so the whole discussion was caused merely by a zealous newspaper man who saw a headline in a few of Mr. Clark's inaptly chosen phrases...