Word: tics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such depths, or deeper, Dr. Shapley would have his plutonic laboratories. Ph. D. moles would record the pulsations of the earth's crust which, according to one theory, is as rigid as steel and as elas- tic, rather than viscous, like stiff pitch. They would verify the hypothesized drift of North America from Europe and South America from Africa. (As can be seen on a globe, the continents would roughly fit together.) Such scientific gnomes might be able to determine the existence of an interstellar ether. They could certainly measure the relation of earth heat to earth depth. They...
...senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...
...Tic Brush Co. (tooth, hair, clothes brushes) reported largest earnings in its history (61 years), $726,491. Previous year...
...failed to get them, either because he was too unpleasantly hostile to European affairs, or because he was too bitter toward the bad local governor (one Len Small), or because he somewhat too blatantly permitted Federal office holders to work in his behalf, or because he was too militaris- tic, or because the people had become suspicious of the autocracy of the Chicago Tribune, or because Deneen is quite a good man, or for all these reasons put together and spiced with the elusive flavor of political accident...
...Tic-tickity-tick-tickity-tickity-tickity...