Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
Sirs: ... It might not be amiss here to enlighten you as to who you were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity...
...Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely, the success of democratic government in the more literate countries suggests that the educative efforts have not been entirely amiss...
...that page, entitled "Feng adroit," does not represent the stalwart person of the so-called Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang. In fact, it is the picture of the late General Feng Kou-Chang, once the Vice President of the Republic of China. Perhaps it will not be far amiss for me to add here that, although bearing the same name, the "Christian" General is by no means a family relative of the late Vice President...
...great problems which universities are now trying to solve is how to make scholarship attractive. At the present moment, when the Phi Beta Kappa Society has drawn attention to itself by its recent election and its newly announced plans for a Sesquicentennial Celebration it may not be amiss to inquire into one of the reasons why scholarship is not more attractive to students than it actually...