Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian realm...
...prehistoric brain surgery Anatomist Kappers reminisced, "It is even probable that the trephine holes found in prehistoric skulls 50,000 years old were made for curative purposes. A short time ago the aborigines of some Pacific islands still exercised a similar practice, making holes in their skulls with sharp shells to cure chronic headaches." He mentioned briefly his own theory of neurobiotaxis which considers the brain as a functioning organ and attempts to explain its complexities in terms of work. This done, Anatomist Kappers eulogized U. S. neurologists and neurosurgeons for their advance in the treatment of tumours and abscesses...
League postpones settlement of so many major issues, was geniality itself. "The explanation," said he, "is similar to the point of an anecdote told me recently by an American friend. It seems that one of your schoolmasters had asked a lad to form a sentence using the word 'diadem.' The pupil replied, 'People who drink bootleg diadem sight quicker than those who don't. . . .' You catch my meaning, I am sure...
...That's their proper fodder!" *The gourmand may be a mere glutton. The gourmet must possess an ecstatic discrimination among foods similar to the faculty of the dgustateur of wine...
Gold Dust had similar trouble with the cotton seed oil, feeds and other derivatives made by the American Cotton Oil Co. which it absorbed in 1923. The cotton oil business did not pay. Gold Dust abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating...