Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perkins, who standing in the absent President Conant's place more than a year ago, advised an entering Freshman Class to do one thing and do it well, himself did many things...
...glad he made the speech," Wilde declared, "and I don't mind the inconsistencies. It's a good thing something like that has been uttered...
Wild wanted to know what was behind the speech; it was a feeler, and as such a good thing, but only a "good thing if he will go further and explain what the consequences may be, for these may be revolutionary to his theory of neutrality...
...Basenji is a smallish, chestnut-brown African dog, sturdy, compact and bony. Catlike, it slinks, catlike washes its face with its paws. The name means ''bush thing." Unique characteristic of the Basenji is that it does not bark; it utters only one noise, "GROOO!" Breeders be lieve its lineage can be traced back to the Twelfth Egyptian Dynasty. Since then countless generations of Africans, legend says, have succeeded in breeding out its bark, for the sake of silence not in the home but on the hunt...
...caps and fingernail polish in many a corner drugstore. An up & coming rival of M. Lelong is M. Marcel Rochas in both Paris fashions and perfume. He too is in the U. S. drumming up trade but by different means. His rivals concede that he is doing a daring thing for a Paris dressmaker, for Marcel Rochas last week opened a Manhattan branch, the first such opened by a major French couturier...