Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government employ. In 1874, he began to serve Henry A. Ward of Rochester, as a naturalist. A couple of years later, he went around the world gathering rare specimens of animal life. When he got back, he founded the Society of American Taxidermists. After eight years of this sort of apprenticeship, he became Chief Taxidermist of the National Museum in Washington. He has hunted for Science in India, the Malay Archipelago and South America. In Montana, he has collected buffaloes for the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. A decade or so ago he became prominent in the game conservation movement...
...effort you and your following have made to nullify and tear down the 18th Amendment is treason of the rankest sort, and if ever a person deserved death at the hands of an outraged public you certainly deserve...
...honest worker will believe the sort of picture of Russia drawn by Max Eastman. It contains its own refutation. It is immaterial what were Eastman's intentions. His booklet can only render service to the worst enemies of Communism and revolution. It therefore objectively constitutes a weapon of counter-revolution...
...decision of Messrs. Nash and Grayson, publishers of Captain Peter Wright's Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3), to change "to pursue and possess every sort of woman" into "to pursue every sort of woman" not only pleased Lord Gladstone, whose father, the late Premier William Ewart...
When the South African diamond fields were opened, a serious difficulty with violently fluctuating diamond prices at once arose. Many people buy jewels as a sort of investment, and this type of buying was discouraged by the lively ups and downs of the prices for the white stones under natural conditions of supply and demand. Hence the De Beers Company assumed the function of buying, carrying and distributing at stable prices diamonds obtained from the South...