Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Wilson, reminded people that the executive order upon which Departmental political regulations are based was issued by President Cleveland a generation ago and that it specifies that "no Presidential appointee or other unclassified employee . . . will be permitted ... to display such obtrusive partisanship as to cause public scandal ... to use his position to interfere with an election or to affect the result thereof...
...While I am in this cautioning mood let me speak about the bootlegging and liquor-drinking of which I understand there is too much around the reservation. I particularly advise you against the use of liquor, known in the early days as firewater. I know you will obey all laws...
...Ministers who use their pulpits to preach politics are hurting their churches far more than they are any candidate...
Most of the important college football teams spent last week rolling and pushing on their own gridirons, not venturing to play rivals. Some of the smaller colleges made use of a warm September afternoon for playing their first games with much cursing and lazy snorting but without the readiness, which will be produced by November temperatures, to commit murder or die for victory...
...invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking Sweden...