Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people who, ostensibly are champions of truth, have actually taken the field against it. It is not even necessary to assume that the theory of evolution is true. All one need assume is that it may be true. This possibility religious bigots deny. Truth to them is a tiny wad, and they claim to have it all. Such a conflict will do much to discredit religion. The real enemy, however, is not religion itself, but the obnoxious and blighting egotism of some of those who profess...
...Berkeley, Calif., Walter Camp and others, to the estimated number of 100,000, sat beneath "Tight Wad Hill" and beheld California suddenly turn upon Stanford, methodically start rending her to bits. Late in the afternoon, Stanford grew annoyed, flung passes, drew from far behind to a 20-to-20 tie. It was the year's most notable Pacific Coast footballing, but indecisive since neither team had been beaten. If there is a titular shade, it favors Stanford, tied but this once to California's twice...
Many a thumping wad was skrunched when Four-Corners read the newspaper jest: HIRAM JOHNSTON OUT OF RACE...
...time, speaking of the sorry case of Russia and other European countries he held up a roll of depreciated currency, once worth $325,000,000, now worth $2.95, and declared : "If I had had this wad ten years ago, I assure you, gentlemen, I would not have been a Methodist clergyman...