Word: meats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dress and manner, . . . wants to be seen and heard, whereas the successful man of the world moves about inconspicuously. He is still the center of his own world. This is what makes him . . . "an opinionated little cuss." He is as full of argument as an egg is of meat. He lives on slang. . . . There are two remedies. . . . One is a frank and outspoken attitude . . . addressed to the student, to the end that he discover antidotes to his limitations. The other, and the most effective, is . . . a full year of employment between high school and college.0...
...trade agreement is about to be negotiated between England and Russia. It is well known how necessary is Russia's trade for the economic rehabilitation of all Europe, and how much Russia's pauperism has played into the hands of the Soviet faction. A starving, naked people prove easy meat for skilful agitators working for their own ends. Trade must be re-established between Russia and the rest of Europe, and the Russian peasant must obtain food, boots, shoes, clothes, agricultural implements, and tools of all kinds in exchange for his product, instead of paper that will buy nothing, before...
While we were at war it was highly desirable that as many town people as possible should be persuaded to cultivate war gardens. That was one means of adding a small margin to our food supply, to the end that a little more flour and meat could be spared to feed our friends across the ocean. Now that the war is over, the chief effect of daylight saving will be to enable town people to spend a little more time in self amusement...