Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleasantly shocked, the college girls nudged each other, exchanged pert grimaces, whispered: "Wasn't that hot stuff? . . . My mama wouldn't want me to hear that. . . . Isn't he cute...
...such a man as Dr. Dewey should not have understood so simple a fact. Perhaps the solution lies in his pragmatism. An idea is true if it works. This sort of cant with its innuendo against the rich certainly works in most audiences in the country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher...
Passing a large pool where log rollers do their stuff five times a day, the spectator comes to the teepee of Chief Walks-Like-An-Elephant, who is hitting his little portable tom-tom with alarming vehemence. Coming to the last of the wild animal exhibits, a stirring collection of rare rabbits and guines pigs, the observer will-hear someone say, "Oh! Look at the bob-tailed rate...
Armed with a high-powered rifle, a tester for the biggest U. S. explosives company walked a few paces, wheeled, aimed, fired. The bullet zipped into a two-foot cylinder of whitish stuff resembling caked salt. Nothing happened. A 50-lb. trip-hammer crashed down on another cylinder. Nothing happened. A man attacked another piece of the substance with a blowtorch. It simply sizzled. Red-hot irons bored holes in other pieces and still nothing happened. Other lumps were dropped into furnaces. They disintegrated harmlessly. Testers tried in vain to make the stuff explode with blasting caps. But when...
...interview with Abd-el-Krim, Riff Chieftain who was making things hot in North Africa. Later, after a second interview with Abd-el-Krim, Sheean became known as the "modern Richard Harding Davis," a feature writer who could be counted upon to turn up good "personal adventure" stuff for the entertainment of the feature-reading public...