Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good night. If the occasion happens to be a dance I may sit in my box till midnight but never later. My rule is that I must be in bed between 11 and 12. I must keep in training, almost like an athlete. My exercise is obtained from walking. About two o'clock every afternoon I leave my office at the Capitol and walk briskly for a mile or more. As a result of careful watch over my diet and moderate exercise I keep myself inside the 168-pound limit...
Next the Royal regalia was brought to the robing room of the House of Lords. Shortly before noon the King & Queen drove over from Buckingham Palace, were assisted into their gear and began their solemn, stately walk to the two gold thrones in the House of Lords. Once a year His Majesty opens Parliament for the excellent reason that he has closed it, and this salutary closing (a formality performed by the Lord Chancellor) kills hundreds of bills which have not yet passed both Houses, thus clearing the Parliamentary decks for action...
Majestic--"Walk of a Little Faster." Beatrice Lille, Clark, and McCullough. Will...
...that the petition form of appeal in being prostituted by a group which is too ignorant to learn to budget its time to fit the new Library hours; too lazy to walk from the playing fields, the Athletic Building, or the laboratories to draw books out for the overnight use at 6 o'clock; and whose Committee Chairman has himself admitted to the Comptroller that he is not personally inconvenienced at all by the early closing. Eugene Du Bois...
...hear all their "better middle class" lives. Some usages now viewed by 6,000 U. S. teachers as permissible: Who are you looking for? Invite whoever you wish. None are expected. Everyone was here but they all went home early. Healthy climate. Pretty good, awfully bad. I felt badly. Walk slow. Try and get well. He invited my friends and myself. Farther for further, shall for will. The reason was because . . . If it wasn't for football, school life would be dull...