Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Famine. Sir Daniel Hall demonstrated the waste, in food-units, of lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil and paper, write down every thought that occurs to you for two hours. Do this several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely...
...What the Sam Hill?" queried virile Pacific Coast he-millionaires last week as Seattle, Wash., news organs scare-headed that Sam Hill will entertain Marie, Queen of Rumania, on her September visit to the U. S. (TIME, July...
...trouble with final examinations is that they are used and wielded by instructors as "big sticks," that instructors take advantage of this privilege in order to scare students into cramming a comprehensive review of a subject into their whirling brains, a process which makes the "visit" of the material endure for only the following twenty four hours...
...Flagged Out!" The Putsch scare was aggravated last week by the occurrence of the identical event planned as the first step in its accomplishment - the fall of Chancellor Hans Luther's Cabinet...
...ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR -John Bakeless - Viking ($2.50). Not more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...