Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit is, so long as he can buy the same amount of goods or labor for it. Quite naturally there was discontent because this thing was hard to understand, and there was trouble because it was hard to apply...
...mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep maker. . . . The newer synthetics [drugs] have no relation to morphine; they have none of that kick that makes the taker wish to repeat the experience. . . ."?Walter C. Alvarez...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...
Undoubtedly in many of these cases the Deans will hand back the reports with a smile, and proceed to settle the questions in hand just as if there were no such thing as Student Advisors. By the same token, many of the Advisors themselves will have had to report on Freshmen whom they have seen only once, whom they have found uncommunicative, whom they know exceedingly little about. These reports will of course be of little practical value...
...traveling fellowships to graduate students to study abroad, in the venerable Universities of England or the equally alluring institutions of the continent, is a long established tradition among American Universities. Here at Harvard the keen competition for Rhodes Scholarships attests to the value placed on this sort of thing...