Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor so desired. Whereupon several fearless scientists isolated the boy in a glass cage to learn the secrets of this dread phantom. The poltergeist was evidently deeply impressed with such audacity and has since shown no signs of his presence...
...course, this is just his personal opinion, and doesn't appear in the stories he writes. Hot tips on "dark-haired Woburn boys" and "phantom half backs" are his specialty, but while his typewriter is busy clicking off these potent concoctions. Ted is not very much fooled, and casual observers may note a bulge in his left cheek as he builds a second string tackle and third string guard with a "likely-looking monkey wrench in Yale's classy juggernaut...
...individual--even before he is a Freshman. When he comes to Harvard he is in no way urged to yield up that individuality merely for the sake of conforming. There are either three thousand types of Harvard graduates or there is none. The Harvard type is a phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas, but he will leave as much an individual as when he first entered to grow in wisdom...
...loans presuppose security and the only security the farmers can offer is a "phantom crop." "The land owners are as hard hit almost as the tenants and their credit has received a stunning blow. Furthermore, every merchant, every bank holds the paper of hundreds of farmers whose assets have been lost. ... To get money the farmer must give security and in the case of those who need it most the security is either in or on the way to the Gulf of Mexico...
...model Rolls-Royce-the "Phantom"-appeared last week at the Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...