Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wisdom of such a step is open to serious question, especially when the restrictions on the power, which merely makes the "permission" amount to the right to bear tales, are so plainly outlined. That the students are better fitted than the college authorities to pass judgment on their associates is hardly possible, as they have no qualifications for this sort of work and are liable to influences of such a personal character as to make the question of right and wrong actually a doubtful one. Further, one hears of very few cases indeed of unjust dismissals from college and other...
August Heckscher, zinc, realty: "I find myself fertile with philanthropic ideas. Last week I promised to Mayor Walker of New York $250,000,000 to replace New York slums with model dwellings, if the city and state governments will supply a like amount. I will raise my sum by dunning 500 rich friends for $500,000 each, to be paid in five yearly instalments. Mayor Walker dared not scoff. Others were impressed...
...congress of high-roaders, the low-road Episcopal press became filled with reverent indignation. When the bishop, the Right Reverend John Gardner Murray, refused to change his mind and did attend the congress, last week in Milwaukee, this indignation continued, high-road Episcopalians being filled with a corresponding amount of reverent elation...
...team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted while the sacred rites of the tea table are observed, this plan would work. Unfortunately, the condition of intercollegiate athletics...
...most logical reasons for such an alteration is the fact that the voters have been informed, through the expose of the political scandals that all is not well with the ballot box, and that the Probabilities of corruption are manifold. There fore the desire to bring about a plausible amount of integrity in public office has drawn voters to the polls who have no interest other than to see capable and, as far as possible, honest men as their representatives. The result may be a repetition of former grafts: but if such is the case the people will have...