Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Sheriff Smith from his hospital bed: "I wish there was no such thing as prohibition. I'm through with it. . . . Try to enforce the law and see what happens...
There was really little more to say, though Mr. Lloyd George declaimed in masterly fashion for over an hour, concluding: "There are people who are saying we will not be in a position to fulfill this pledge [to end unemployment]. Of one thing I am not in doubt?we shall be in a position to compel its fulfillment...
...very new thing they discovered: some normal "rapid" stomachs digest a meal in two and a half hours. Other normal "slow" stomachs require three and a half hours for the process. Those rates pertain only to the stomach. Digestion proceeds all the way down the ten yards of bowels...
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...other great thing was the $300,000 building promised by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice of Manhattan, as a memorial to her son Alumnus Harry Elkins Widener. The building has already been nicknamed "Hobby Hall," It will contain lathes, printing presses, cinema machines, dark rooms, telescopes, microscopes, stuffed birds, model engines, yards of linoleum for linoleum blocks, modelling clay, paints. Here students may feed, groom, ride their hobbies, also take courses in natural sciences...