Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making it pay had the same sort of interest for Lowden that he found in reorganizing first a varied lot of industries as a lawyer, and then the government of Illinois...
...very much like an encased violin, which the document said it was. But the ninety-sixth senator-Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned me that it might be a deadly germ carrier. I will not be picked up by any of the tricks of the Jesuits...
...manufacturer of microscopes found by a survey that the farmers of the country could be sold small inexpensive microscopes. They could use them in detecting what sort of bug was eating cabbage leaves and what in the soil was deterring the growth of corn, wheat or other crops. In fact, nearly a hundred ways were found for the practical use of the microscope on the farm. Accordingly, this manufacturer's biggest market for microscopes has been developed among the farmers of the country...
...Professor F. S. Childs many years ago. The Chapmen, from whence the book gets its name, existed several centuries ago and travelled all over the country visiting town and hamlet. He became the purveyor of literature, and was the only means whereby the people could get literature of any sort...
...questionnaire covers quite completely all phases of a students career in College. It contains numerous questions of a sort which will enable the secretary in his first report to summarize many interesting important phases of undergraduate life. Some of these cover such topics as expenses in college, marriage of undergraduates, drinking, and opinions on courses in general. A feature of the questionnaire is the fact that it gives the individual ample opportunity to express his candid views on the more vital functions of the college, such as the system of divisional examinations at present followed, the tutorial system, the Reading...