Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over streets and into houses, crashed bridges, washed out hillsides. The rain continued. When it finally stopped after five appalling days, Los Angeles had had the worst flood in its history, the most drastic outbreak of geographical temperament since the earthquake. Total property damage covering 30,000 square miles was guessed at $50,000,000 compared to the earthquake's $45,000,000. Twenty thousand people were homeless. And in its sudden rage the flood had taken...
...just north of Nanking. This week in Tokyo a deputy asked Premier Prince Konoye if Japan is reasonably sure to have won the war before 1940, when she is to be host to the Olympics. "I am unable to say definitely," hedged the Premier. "We must plan for the worst. The immediate problem is to deliver a final blow to China and end the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek...
...Well I prepared for the worst by storing up three cases of Bromo Seltzer, and had a thorough internal purification at the hands of "Quince" Morrissey at the head of 14 of the Gym staff...
Like William James, Professor Lake complains of the worship of degrees, and very rightly. The taking of courses for credit, the pursuit of degrees and titles for themselves, has been long recognized as one of the worst features of American Education from Normal School up. Every teacher knows how general and futile cramming for an examination is, and that too few students remember anything significant about the courses they took...
...true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...