Word: teethes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous little boys got out of it. Though they had traveled 300 wet, slippery miles from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria's 16th-Century hymn to the King of Heaven. The Singing Boys made...
...caster overhead and dangled for seven minutes. "It seemed a hell of a lot longer than that to me!" he said. Workers from above lowered a looped cable through which he inserted his legs, permitting them to hoist him to safety. Not until then did he unclench his teeth from his pipe, let it drop down, down into...
...tablespoonful. This they do two or three hours before the contest, because they agree with the Germans that "alkalinization should be produced suddenly." They also agree that no man should be kept in such an over-alkalinized state for more than four days at a time. Reason : his teeth and bones will lose their calcium, become soft. A favorite preventive: pot cheese...
Side by side with courses and examinations with teeth in them goes the need for wider scholarship aids, if American education is to fulfill its whole function in the community. A system of learning that excludes from a university education and hence from professional training, those whose ability and ambition is greater than their bank accounts does not pull its full load in a democratic society...
...Pittman Resolution doubtless is a twoedged weapon, but it is folly to seek a one-edgged neutrality. Neutrality will always be regarded by injured belligerents as unfair and menacing. If we are to have teeth, we must always run the risk of biting our own tongues. On the whole, the Resolution should find its way to the Congressional Record without very much opposition. The "Peace Act of 1937" deserves to become a reality...