Word: threshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvest, thresh and ship a wheat crop...
...Stacpoole was not bitter about it. "There is no use," said he, "abusing ships. They are up against hard times and new conditions." But Governments could "end this terrible business," he thought; and he forthwith called for an international conference "to thresh it out." He offered no suggestions as to how the high seas might be made safe for aviculture, nor did he estimate what leagues of ocean are still unpolluted by the oily skirts of commerce
...fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...Early one bright morning, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge stood on their thresh- old. Up drove automobiles, out piled twoscore laughing, talkative guests. Everyone shook hands and then Mrs. Coolidge said: "Let's go in to breakfast." Immediately the President offered his arm to a tall, deep-voiced, blonde young lady named Charlotte Greenwood and led the party into the state dining-room. Mrs. Coolidge took the arm of a dignified gentleman named Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, then spied a smiling man called Al Jolson and took his arm as well. Said she: "I want two partners for this occasion...
Over the week-end, delegates from fifty colleges will hold discussions, conferences, lectures and all sorts of things to thresh out definitely and finally whether the Eighteenth Amendment ought to be enforced. The chief objection of this New England Citizenship Conference is to influence student opinion on the Prohibition question, and incidentally to give the student body a chance to express itself...