Word: weeds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing criminals on income tax evasion charges. In Albany...
...first place he feels, contrary to many of his colleagues, that the American mind has improved, that most students at college deserve to be there. The problem is not how to weed out the poor, but how to make accommodations for the good. The limits of education are infinite. The cycle is a continuously progressive one: the more you educate the more you have to educate. If the Chancellor is right in this supposition the universities of the future are confronted by a problem far more complex than the restriction...
...California or Peggy Wee of Long Island. At the start Peggy Wee was over the line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth?winning first place with 98 points...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...65th year, with pneumonia just behind him, with his doctors optimistic but warning that the Royal heart is weak, George V stood smiling and puffing in the Royal Box as the horses lined up, sucking his favorite long pale weed with relish...