Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied and that this expression is often artistic and beautiful is likewise true. But the idea of self expression "to help gave the world" would hardly fit in with true Romanticist idea of the order of things. The ground work of art in human experience does not allow it to become objective in the role of a savior and this also applies to literature. Mr. Lewisolin's true place is that of a defender of Romanticism as he shows in the early part of the article and not as a peacemaker or as a Man with a Higher Motive...
...Russia in 1917, any, in short, of Europe's great social or political upheavals. It is a real civil war based on a major issue that transcends for the time being all individual interests. The ultimate question to be decided is whether the Chinese people will continue to allow a handful of scheming politicians and ambitious war-lords to keep them in a state of civil bondage or whether they will embrace the comprehensive program of reform offered by the Cantonese...
Garmaccia's side has healed sufficiently to allow him to play and to insure his seeing action on Saturday...
...returning your coupon, allow me to say that, as a student of my fellow countrymen, I should greatly like to see a compilation of the statistics resulting from your study. It has been my plan to write a book some day, classifying the citizens of our country according to their sense of humor. Do not misunderstand me when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your...
...maintain with absolute conviction that no loyal Princeton man would tolerate the sacrifice of sportmanship to athletic victories, further I contend that Princeton could not allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...