Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conceivably Publicist Barton had handled the thing better than any "boy" could have done, Mr. Barton being on old hand at what is called "human interest stuff...
...Carters- ville. Ga. He had almost no money. His family was indifferent to money. Let a man be honest-shrewdness was unnecessary. It was about 1887 that he sold in his store (he had started a little dispensary of his own in Atlanta) a few quarts of some stuff invented by a certain Dr. Pemberton, and called Coca-Cola. Various people had owned and controlled Dr. Pemberton's in. fant company. During the first year 25 gallons had been sold and $46 spent for advertising. In 1889, Mr. Candler got a part interest in the company; in 1900 full...
...having read of the Harvard he knows and of the Harvard of an earlier time, and of John Harvard whose "School Abides, his testament", he is ready for the sterner stuff contained in Aswell's Bowdorn Prize essay, "This Modern Chaos Called Education." It is a cogent plea that Education, Philosophy, and Life be linked in an indissoluble bond. Teachers must make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though...
...ancient Cambridge, where, culture keeps a chain store or two, the pilgrims are returning to buy their stuff a home. The annual Grand Tour is a memory and some labels. And Baedecker's are packed away by tutors and tutees al ke. But down in the cellar of a musty, fussy old chateau in some place or other, probably Germany, Pan is counting coin and smiling. It was, on the whole he finds, an excellent year...
...trouble, couldn't do the housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...