Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best fitted the old Gilman place. A carpenter by trade and inclination, he found plenty to do in his own neighborhood, could not conceive why his more restless brothers wanted to leave home. When Margery Lee, the local schoolmistress, came to board and his brother Jeff courted her with signal unsuccess, Luke understood Jeff's sudden departure. But Luke was pretty sure nothing could change him. Then he fell in love with Margery himself. She hated the country, was consumed with metropolitan ambitions, swore she would some day see her name in Broadway lights. But when she married Luke...
...determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling to take up schoolteaching he owed his hard-pressed father $600. But he had learned more than any college could have taught...
...came when Sheriff Harvey Odell of San Joaquin deputized 1,000 Stockton businessmen, armed them with pick handles and put them under the leadership of Colonel Walter Garrison, president of the reactionary Associated Farmers of California. Police and deputies surrounded the canneries as preparations were made to reopen them. Signal for battle was the shout of "Here she comes!" raised by a crowd of pickets...
...sugar which is extracted from manna, a mildly cathartic gum secreted by certain Oriental trees. Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both sweet and bitter, still others could detect no taste at all. Dr. Blakeslee declared his belief that differences of taste among...
...Council of Government Concentrators has chosen a fitting way to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the turbulent 1787 Convention. With hysterical cries like "scrapping the Constitution" and "assaults on Constitutional morality" booming from Senate committee rooms and Washington radio stations, the student committee on constitutional philosophy has a signal opportunity to see whether the philosophy of the framers is in any way consistent with the policies of the present administration...