Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying colonel's hunch to keep away from political talks was surely a sound one. For to say that the war is no banding together against a Genghis Khan but a mere squabble between nations 15 to reveal, not merely the foot of clay, but far worse, the head of bone...
...cram parlors will not immediately close their doors. Let there be no mistake about that. But their mask of holiness has been finally and effectively torn away from them. They can no longer make any pretenses to educational merit, for any tutoring of a reputable and legitimate nature can be done better and more cheaply by the University. They must openly admit that they exist for another and less honorable reason...
...Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed to govern themselves, constitute an ever-present danger to the peace of Europe. And disposing of these absorbing problems with such vague generalizations, Miss Harding jerks the reader abruptly away from any further discussion and continues with her biographical narrative...
...centimeters each. During this "saturation" period his pain is as agonizing as ever, and he usually needs heavy doses of morphine or other opiates. But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres. Gradually his pain dies away. After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious experimenting, discovers exactly how large a maintenance dose the patient needs to carry him comfortably through his daily life. Patients should learn, said Dr. Rutherford, "to give themselves the injections, just as diabetic patients administer their own insulin . . . [and] to adjust...
...corporation is considered a person, so there is no reason why it shouldn't have a personality. And since advertising is news, it ought to deal with current topics." Of his poetry: "I've been sticking my neck out with that stuff, but apparently I got away with...