Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city manager system much resembles the structure of a business corporation. There is a city council or commission like a board of directors, elected by the people. The councilors or commissioners sometimes appoint a vestigial sort of mayor whose functions are chiefly social. Their important appointee is an executive who man ages the actual government and then tells the council or commission about...
...permeating, boundless, and everywhere in violent motion. Since matter is now known to be pure energy in complicated forms, the origin of matter out of the ether might be accounted for thus: the continuity of the ether was at some time interrupted by "an extremely minute cavity," a sort of vacuous bubble in equilibrium under the gigantic pressure of the surrounding ether. Sir Oliver pictured this bubble "spinning violently under the influence of the circulation which presumably extracted it." Such a bubble would have been but a new form of the energy of the ether...
...tune of a band in his boat, swam many miles, caught cramps when in second place. Ethel Hertle, 15 miles out and in third place, collapsed with cold. Edith Heden, Finn, screamed with pain and was taken out, bitten by eels. "Women have a horror of that sort of thing. It makes them sick," said Miss Daisy King Shaw, who was also bitten by eels. Eels like grease...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...
...hope there are many among the Boy Scouts who share Kingsley Leeds' sort of manliness...