Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole. We may walk together today in patriotism but we may be centuries apart in our thoughts towards humanity...
...extraordinarily large percentage of deuce games before he could down Storb 6-2, 7-5. In the number two doubles encounter, Miller's speed proved rather a problem for Guild and Pfaffman. Yet although they dropped the first set 5-7, they solved the riddle, and were able to walk away with the next...
Axel Astrom, Finnish Minister at Washington, walked into the office of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and handed him a check for $9,132. After that, Finland owed the United States just an even $9,000,000. During the next 62 years other Finnish ministers expect to walk in with other checks covering the balance...
...incentives are are the discontent of returned colored troops with traditional living conditions south of the Mason-Dixon line, the breakdown of the contract labor system, recent crop failures and general agricultural bankruptcy among Southern planters. " The wonder is," remarks The New York Globe, " that the Negro did not walk out long...
...course, immediately reminded of Walter Reed, and other scientists who have experimented on themselves for the good of humanity. In these days when people are willing to walk a mile for a Camel, it is highly important that they be safeguarded against an undue percentage of nicotine; and nowhere can guardians of the general welfare be so properly found as in the colleges. Even the Yale "Pest" would agree that none are better suited. But should this philanthropy be restricted to the comparatively innocuous luxury,--tobacco. No,--as any statesman would say,--a thousand times, no! The self-denial...