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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, IMS
How Well Do You Know America?
Answers
I.
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5.
II.
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3.
4.
III.
1,
4.
5.
IV.
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V.
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J.
VIII
1.
IX.
1.
The Influence of Sea Power
upon History
The Impending Crisis of the
South
Progress and Poverty
The American Crisis, etc.
Farewell Address
Founding libraries
Catholic pioneering
Oratory
Boss rule
Settlement house work
Literature and scholarship
Free speech
Scientific research
Eating
Lincoln
James G. Blaine
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Stephen Douglas
Walt Whitman
A1 Smith
Jenny Lind
Development of industry, elim-
ination of dependence upon
foreign markets, and internal
improvements. Phrase first
used by Henry Clay in 1824.
Common phrase of 1840's and
50's suggesting the continued
territorial expansion of the
United States.
A secret system of aiding fugi-
tive slaves from the South to
escape to free states and Can-
ada.
A company used by a group of
top men in the Union Pacific
Railroad to enable them to
pocket exorbitant profits from
construction of the line. One
of the notorious scandals dur-
ing Grant's administration.
Organization set up after the
Civil War to help former
slaves adjust to their new
lives.
Sept. 24, 1869; Gould, Fisk,
and Gorbin attempted to cor-
nor the gold supply of the
United States, creating a pan-
ic.
Descriptive of the political and
fconomic philosophy underly-
ing the domestic policies of
Woodrow Wilson.
Act by which a state suspends
;i federal law within its terri-
torial jurisdiction. Virginia
an dKentucky, 1798.
Samuel A. Maverick
Amelia Bloomer
Caspar Wistar
Elbridge Gerry
Dr. Alexander Garden
George M. Pullman
New York Harbor
Newcastle, Delaware
Plymouth
JameatQwn
Delaware River
Tom Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Mr. Dooley (F. P. Dunne)
"Lighthorse Harry" Lee
Sacco and Vanzetti (from the
The Male Animal, Thurber and
Nugent)
Supreme Court interpretation
of word "commerce" by Mar-
shall to mean buying, -selling,
and other intercourse such as
navigation; helped check strife
among states over control of
stream navigation.
A state may not pass laws im-
pairing a contract.
Supreme Court decision of 1908
upholding Oregon state law of
ten-hour work day for women.
A negro slave could not be a
citizen, therefore could not sue
the federal government.
5.
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2.
3.
4.
XI.
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XII.
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XIII
1.
2.
Supreme Court may declare
acts of Congress unconstitu-
tional.
Whitman, "When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
E. A. Robinson, "Flamonde"
Edgar Allan Poe, "Israfel"
Henry Thoreau, Walden
Wood-carving and architecture.
Architecture
Stained glass making
Silver smith work
Glass-making
Furniture-making
Candy
Vest
Sixteenth-note
Tax-payer
Crossing-sweeper
Poorhouse
Corporation
Bedbug
Suspenders
Play games; square dance
Husk corn
Serenade noisily a newly-mar-
ried couple
Dance lively.
Play a game in which a live
gander, its neck greased, is
tied to a tree. Players gallop
past on horseback, trying to
pull off gander's head. Winner
receives the laurel crown.
XIV.
1. Beautiful houses
2. The Blues
3. Houses of the newly-rich
4. Bums
XV.
1. George Bellows
2. J. S. Copley
3. George Inness
4. Correction: Snap the Whip-
Winslow Homer
5. John S. Curry
XVI.
1. Bloody steel strike
2. Defeat of Santa Anna
3. Cannibalism
4. Texas Declaration of Inde-
pendence
5. Transcontinental Railroad
completed
6. First settlement under the pro-
visions of Ordinance of 1787.
7. Oil discovered first
XVII.
1. Corner to the right of the pul-
pit in church.
2. Northern adventurer in South
after Civil War; carried be-
longings in carpet bag.
POLITICS
Slipshod Thinking Prevalent
In Debate On UN
By BILL HOBBY
The debate over the United Nations Organization that
has been raging for the past few months has been positively
amazing. Amazing for the amount of slipshod thinking that
has been done by both the friends and the foes of the UN.
Its foes heatedly claim—and its friends as heatedly deny—
that the whole tendency of the
3. Political hanger-on of a ward
- boss
4. Paradise for warriors and
hunters after death (Indian)
5. Dissenter from established re-
ligion
6. Bluffer (as with four-flush
hand)
7. Spreader of sensational and
undiscritninating charges of
corruption against public fig-
ures
8. Panhandler—a beggar.
Hermann Professional
. BARBER SHOP
PROFESSIONAL > HAIRCUTS
Hermann Professional Bldg.
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UN is to lessen our national
sovereignty.
And, of course, the foes are right.
If the UN is to be worth its salt
as a way to international peace,
one of its chief aims must be to
build its own power at the expense
of the sovereignty of its member
nations.
In fact, the UN, if it seeks to
preserve the peace, must also seek
to strip nations of the most fun-
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