Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that most of this sturm and drang is concentrated in the hands of a few restless individuals so oddly ambitious that they elect themselves to responsible offices, and so slightly occupied that they have time to fulfill the attendant chores. The rest of the student body pursues its own sweet, egocentric way hardly disturbed by the periodic abullitions of these willing horses. More, you come to realize that any three men you select at random will have more friends outside the House than in it--and not many altogether at that." He fails to find, furthermore, any evidence of differentiation...
CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX-Don Marquis-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week, as usual since the world began, plain readers were more inclined to listen to the sweet unreason of kindly old fellows like Will Rogers and Don Marquis than to the expert kidding of more incisive minds...
...aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas," said Ovid, and he must have been right. At any rate, one of the more overstimulated spectators of Saturday's debacle went after the sweet water of the Charles...
...gathered. By this week cost of financing had mounted to $100,000,000. But at last Hetch Hetchy Water Supply System was ready to fulfill its purpose. Piled behind O'Shaughnessy Dam in 7½-mile-long Hetch Hetchy reservoir lie 67,000,000,000 gal. of clean, sweet mountain water. Few miles to the northwest lies supplementary Lake Eleanor reservoir, holding 9,000,000,000 gal. The system will supply San Francisco at once with 60,000,000 gal. per day. In full flow the completed system will supply 400,000,000 gal. per day. The first planners...
...business in the next ten years. Westinghouse stock jumped from $18 per share to $23 on the American Railway Association's announcement last week, New York from $13 per share to $18. Both stocks would have soared astronomically if the outlook had been as sweet as it first appeared. Most railroads have no cash to spare for such improvements, even though they will save money in the end. Prospects of PWA brake loans are bleak...