Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recently one schoolteacher said she would do her worst to hurt TIME in the opinion of others. I am sure that there are many of us who boost TIME as much as possible, and who see to it that those under our care have the chance to see all its good points...
...befallen my lot in recent years to examine street paving in various cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Baltimore has by far the best paved streets and the cleanest streets. Philadelphia has the worst paved and dirtiest streets, with St. Louis a close second. WM. H. THOMSON...
...thing in Spain and another across the frontier. But these are feeble-hearted Spaniards, who forget that above political ideas is patriotism, which, born of Spanish glories of the past, should outweigh petty differences. Although it pains me to say it, there are Spaniards who are Spain's worst enemies and who, on leaving Spain, permit foreign influence to make them forget the past glories of the mother country. These weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-memoried persons are averse to recalling Spain's past, which proves her worthy, and point only to present difficulties, which make them renounce the duties...
...Labor party and the National League are, perhaps, in worst shape. It was reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...
...Probably his worst trait," the Dowager Queen Marie says, "is that he loves to tease dogs and cats. He has been bitten several times by dogs, notably last summer, when the palace doctors gave him so much Pasteur treatment that he was sick for a fortnight...