Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When blind Minnesota Senator Thomas David Schall ("it is not eyes that make men") has something on his mind, he must be heard. Last spring (TIME, June 28) he was told by Senator Ashurst, Arizona, that as the years rolled on he would "regret" the speech he was then making (calling his attackers "pettifoggers, blackmailers, skunks"). The Senator from Minnesota proceeded with his speech...
...like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her 'wings,' which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them...
Meantime, aided by statisticians, prophets indulged in prophesying. The year just closing had been neither a bad year nor a boom. The sales volume, both in dollars and units (cars), would exceed even record-smashing 1925.* That seeming certainty, after the gloomy predictions of last spring, augured well indeed for 1927. The new record would result chiefly from large gains by a few big companies, but gains made at no expense to the small. After any bad year most of the companies set out to recuperate by developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only...
...course is open to all members of the University over 18 years of age. It is made up of a series of lectures, two each week, lasting into May, with intermissions for the midyear examinations and the spring recess...
Professor Hydere E. Rollins '16, who received his professorship in English last spring, its publishing two collections of old English ballads. "The Pack of Autolycus" is the first of these, and the second has the alluring title "The Paradise of Dainty Devices". Rollins is a regular contributor to the University Press. Last year at this time appeared his "A Geergeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions", a volume of late sixteenth century songs, a reprint of a delightful anthology of popular songs of that period...