Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived in the good old days when John, the Orangeman assuaged the undergraduate palate, to come back and find everything so changed. Not only architecturally,--there is a horrible spick-span new pile on the site of old Dane Hall with its pleasant lived buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug and "So's your...
...were found in China which prove rather conclusively that even in those very early times there was a cultural connection, shown by a comparison and study of the painted ceramics which have been discovered, between China, Southern Russia and the Messopotamian countries. Therefore, although it may be difficult to trace these connections later, we must admit that they existed many centuries before the beginning of the Christian era, possibly as early as 3,000 B. C. The painted ceramics of Northern China are, by the way, about the best which have been found anywhere...
...Borah: "I am one of those who believe that the Constitution is of sufficient value, if it is necessary, to trace our way through blood and fire in order to maintain...
...corner of 14th and F Streets, Washington, there stood, early in the week, a low wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance. Then he stood back to survey the cornerstone he had laid, put aside the silver trowel...
Painless Childbirth. Three hypodermic injections of epsom salts, one with a trace of morphine, prevented pains of 96% of 3,000 mothers delivered the past three years. The procedure may be used by any competent physician anywhere, under any conditions; is much preferable to the nitrous oxide or the "twilight sleep" technique. (Reported by Dr. James T. Gwathmey of Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan...