Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be done about achieving some kind of order out of the monumental chaos and dustiness of the paleobotanist's room. Very little had been accomplished when the cycad-lovers arrived, trailed by the President of the university and his fuming committee. It was a little difficult to appear dignified and interested and at the same time keep their morning coats and striped trousers out of the inch-thick dust while the Prince and Wieland continued their ardent and interminable conversation. His Royal Highness even demanded to see a particular specimen that had been filed in the jam-packed...
...Indeed, you seem to present to me in many respects a modern portrait having great likeness to that famous character painted by Victor Hugo-in sooth, you appear to be a modern Jean Valjean...
...morning. Adman Peifer graduated to "Go-To-Church Editor'' when, in an ad attacking the pursuit of pleasure, he solicited names of anyone in need of "the sheltering arm of the church." Atlantic City merchants gladly signed up at $2.75 apiece per week to have their names appear as sponsors of Mr. Peifer's thoughts...
...usual familiar coronal streamers, which have completely dominated eclipse photographs taken from the ground, and which have absorbed most of the scientific attention up to now, appear on the new plates as relatively insignificant bright tracery in the immense globular envelope...
...time when higher education is being more widely spread among the masses of the population than ever before, the advantages that can be got from college training, especially from a private institution that is not beholden to any governmental body for its continuance, may not appear on the surface of things. But in coming to Harvard every Freshman is forging an unrivalled opportunity to equip himself for life in the modern world. This opportunity may be gained from contact with books in the University libraries, with the many professors and tutors with whom he will associate, and with...