Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks of the fairy tale. Trees from which only three or four pounds of latex trickled previously were made to produce pails of the valuable liquid, reaching, in some instances, a total of more than 100 pounds a year, so the story goes. No hitches were reported in the experiments, which, carried on in the interior of the islands, were not publicly discussed until those interested were thoroughly satisfied with results and all details...
...CRIMSON's Eating Ballot as a substantiation of the well worn axiom that one may lead a horse to water but one cannot make him drink. Certainly there is opportunity for the analogy, in spite of the fact that the project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite. And the question arises--is "the eating problem", after all, merely a mirage...
...fifth, being a philosophere,-a man who has some clarity of vision does not worry. He is not dumb. Because he fails to join in the titter which floods its liquid way about the platform of learning, the Parnassus of dulness, never believe him uneducated in humor. Rather he is too well educated in humor. Four out of five get it because they lack one of two things, good taste-or good grades...
...knew so much about high explosives that he was often playful with them. One afternoon, while entertaining some friends at tea, he poured a few drops of liquid from the burner of the teapot into a vial, said: "Come out on the back porch and I will show you an experiment." Far out into the yard, he flung the vial. A terrific explosion ensued. In that vial, he explained to his friends, there was some nitro-glycerine...
...injury (of un- known origin) to her left hand. A neighborhood doctor, summoned during the night, had said her pain was due to "a little rheumatism" and ordered applications of cold water. She is kept living by the blood transfusion and by a mechanism of tubes through which liquid nourishment is let seep directly into her veins. Normal feeding is impossible...