Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last attained. This year elections are being carried on by postal ballot and optimistic committees seem to believe that one or two days will suffice to crown their efforts with success. For they argue quite logically that to the jaded Sophomore and the indifferent Junior it is easier to walk to a mail box than to a polling booth...
...Germans ignore the French, they pretend that the Frenchmen are not there. On several occasions I have seen a German walk down the streets of Cologne, with his head in the air, scornfully oblivious of a group of poilus standing in his way. Collision was inevitable, and in every case, I saw the poilus draw aside with a grin to let the German pass...
...Navy has wisely requested her airmen to permit these records to stand long enough for the ink to dry on the books. Although London statistics show that it is safer to fly than to walk, Navy officials are inclined to believe that a continuation of flights--especially with the same unrepaired planes--will eventually lead to disaster. Indeed Lieutenant Williams narrowly missed crashing into a squad of bombers which were meandering along at a poor sixty or ninety miles an hour. He did not bother to slow up, for according to him it is "just as well to hit them...
They do not make me walk the floor...
...were they told that their own was a one man government. But they have seen two presidents break under the mass of administrative routine heaped upon them. President Coolidge, although freed of a small amount of this routine, finds time outside his many duties only for a short morning walk. The simple truth seems to be that an administrative organization designed to direct the government of two million people now directs, without any change of design, the government of a population fifty times this size. The death of this great British statesman may serve to point a lesson not only...