Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest Ray Moulton, professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, added: "This is the doctrine of evolution: that the universe is orderly in time as well as in space. It is naïve and provincial to think of evolution as a term applicable only to changes in living organisms. It applies equally to stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this...
Tall, deliberate, cheerful, Prosecutor Taft said: "As for our being licked, that doesn't matter. We've been licked before and can stand...
...dear man, you've got a bad cough. I should suggest a few days in the Infirmary...
...able to find a crap game even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated. It's no use. "I've got some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm. . . . "My wife and my mother hear so much...
...give us a square deal. Tell the truth, that's all I want." "Oui, mon Colonel." "Touchy." At Marseille, Deserter Doty said: "Colonel Rollet is a touchy old egg, but he's been on the level. . . . The Legion is no young ladies' seminary, though I've never been to one. . . . "Discipline-that's all Legionnaires know . . . but I've never been punished for anything unless I was in wrong." When Mr. Doty reached Paris, last week, he said: "Once an officer asked me why I had joined the Foreign Legion...