Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever wear a flower in your buttonhole? Or do you think a fellow who wears one a sissy? If you do, you are wrong. The man who wants to wear one and does is more of a man than the man who wants to wear one but doesn...
...think we might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...serenade a professor. The inhabitants of Gibson Terrace, troubled by such nocturnal concerts, told the Harvard Housing Commission, and the Commission told the Animal Rescue League. The Animal Rescue League referred the Commission to the Cambridge police, and the police, on the spur of the moment, couldn't think of anybody to whom they could pass the buck, so they had to admit that they were licked. The result is that our worthy guardians of law and order are at present racking their individual and collective cerebra in an attempt to evolve suitable tactics for the forthcoming cat campaign...
...conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power, but of international welfare...
...kidnap the "half starved cats who perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon...