Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, shot-putting is practiced vigorously with managers in the form of nurse-maids judiciously returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised to find what a clever hurdler or pole-vaulter...
...immense amount of free publicity. It cannot be used for enforcement; the United States Treasury takes care of that. Pretty certainly it will not be used for the victims of alcohol poisoning. A conspiracy deriving two thirds of its support from "empty bottles, and bums" is needless to say not a vital danger...
...select the volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student is interested chiefly in a single type of writing, say fiction, verse, or political discussion or that he is of a characteristic turn of mind and will find anything philosophical or else colorful or perhaps sententious, eminently to his taste. It will at once be recognized that each of these suppositions compounds truth and error. Yet one or another...
...after him, even a small mountain. I can only believe the press. (Grace and I were never confidential although we both have spent our lives in or near Vermont.) But the press reports that there isn't a mountain high enough for such honor. I would amend that to say, didn't fear a war with the vested interests, that there isn't a mountain low enough...
...that's all over now. When he begins to pick on the Mexicans I get angry. I've known Mexicans and Mexicans and they've all been good fellows. Let them alone to fight their own battles, I say. What if they do hurt our oil interests? I can use a street car. I don't have to use a taxi all the time...