Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clintonville, Wis. persons unnamed invited contributions of 15? a week for a ''society to give relief to folks hearing about other folks getting from $1 to $50 every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...
...suppose that necessarily there must be economic warfare between Germany and ourselves. There may be some competition, but competition is a thing on which we have thrived in the past. In my view, there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade with these countries and neither of us ought to try to obtain an exclusive position there...
...idea of the thing was that the Republican vote-checker at the polling place would give the volunteer a list showing all the registered voters by addresses. An "R" or a "D" showed which party they were registered under, and those who had already voted were checked off. The season was open for the other Republicans. You started canvassing at one end of the street and looked at the other with a longing eye. The longer the street the more longing...
Often it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and this point might well be applied to the number of essays that should be assigned in those courses frequently taken by the senior class. Each year, members of that learned group find themselves caught with an honors thesis and a great many course papers outside their field from which they can not be excused. Most deeply submerged are concentrators in History-Literature and Bio-Chemistry, for, belonging to no formal department, they find it very difficult to get excused from an overdoes of essays seven inside their...
...world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds of his childhood again--and he sees not just one isolated mile of the "run but the whole thing, hundreds of miniature miles of it. There, too, are the men he loves, the hoggers, the scoop-swingers, the men of the punch, the wipers, the brakies--a score of Uncle Romes enthusiastically puttering around their little system, running it with loving appreciation of its operating difficulties. It is more than...