Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
This fate I attribute to the ignorance and intellectual backwardness of the people of Texas as a whole. The largest State in the Union will not pay their Governor but $4,000 a year! A State with a population well over ten million will not pay their Governor as large a salary as the Federal Government pays their representatives to Congress! The State of Texas will not reorganize their Supreme Court into modern form! . . . This situation is ridiculous...
Gustav Stresemann. The Hague Conference was called to put into operation the Young Plan (TIME, June 10) which fixed for the first time the total Germany must pay in Reparations. Neither Chancellor Snowden nor anyone else has made the slightest objections to this basic feature of the Plan. The whole quarrel at The Hague has been among the Creditor Powers, squabbling over how big a slice each could get. Abruptly last week the squabbling delegates were reminded of the basic-issue by Germany's Foreign Minister, bold, astute Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
Yeast & Liver. Whole dried yeast helps the absorption of food. Water extract of liver stimulates appetite.?St. Louis' Wendell Horace Griffith...
...father, gnomelike little Karl was smaller than most, also weak-legged, humpbacked, bigheaded, crablike. In kindergarten, learning became his play. From 7 to 17, shielded from religious influence, he developed into his Gymnasium's pride. Studying fundamentals of engineering at the University of Breslau, he kept his professors whole lecture hours arguing with...