Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abrupt...
Kindly discontinue my subscription to TIME. Your magazine is too abrupt and uninteresting...
...desire for the confirmation of reality: "He doubted his eyes, and had to feel things with his hands to know them." There is his constant desire for the unattainable tranquility that intellectual and physical isolation partly affords. Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle...
This spring, it is hoped that men concentrating in Biology will afford themselves of the opportunity they have to take the general examinations, thus making the step from the one form of instruction to the other less abrupt Students who wish to take these examinations, which will be held between May 15 and June 1, are urged to arrange dates with the Committee as soon as possible...
...hand, has greater freedom for students in the matter of lecture attendance, has now instituted something of post vocational exams, and the daily recommendation by the CRIMSON of certain worthwhile lectures is evidence that the students are readily falling into the spirit of the system. But the danger of abrupt changes is admitted by implication in the official report...