Word: whats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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No Pea-Pushing Sirs: In answer to Lawyer Curtis J. Quinby's criticism of "Swan Upping" as being a silly thing done by otherwise intelligent and progressive people: Granted that it is a foolish, though traditional, ceremony . . . what price a Britisher pushing a peanut up Ben Nevis with his...
Harangues. First, however, the leaders of the hosts paused to harangue their followers and enemies. Field Marshal Simmons leaped upon the breastworks and spoke first, for three hours. He charged the tariff bill with putting useless and ineffective duties on farm products many of which are not imported at all...
The shrill of his words had hardly died away when the faint voice of Generalissimo Smoot was heard. Asked he: Had not Candidate Herbert Hoover promised the American people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low...
Gildea was center on his Freshman eleven and seemed slated for the first team job last year when he was laid up by an injury which kept him inactive for most of the season. If he can shake the jinx, it seems probable that he will see much service on...
When England builds a new university it does not reproduce Oxford or try to do so. The founders would be more apt to study the University of Illinois as containing what is relevant to modern life.