Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mozart Festivals which were long an annual August feature at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, will hereafter be held at Baden-Baden earlier in the Summer. The reasons are practical. Salzburg was exquisitely appropriate, a quaint, ancient city in beautiful hill country. But it was awkward to get down to that section of Austria by rail, and Salzburg offered only mediocre accommodations for assembled tourists...
...weakly condoned by the assertion that the student is engaged in a game with the professor. There is not even a game going on in the library. The library assistants there do not attempt to watch the students; they trust them. We have no doubt but that the most awkward thief could get away with Webster's Dictionary. This is not in suggestion...
...attend the Newspaper Women's Ball, Michael Grayson of Mr. Munsey's Sun can never be a member of the Newspaper Club. There have been three " Michael Graysons" in the past four months. Mr. Hearst and Mr. Munsey are aware that contracts with ectoplasmic personalities cannot prove awkward...
...Congress which has been distinguished for everything but its attention to business. Mr. Harding pointed to the two outstanding jobs to be done,--the funding of the British debt and the ship subsidy bill,--and called for a definite decision. Whether or not his reference to the latter was awkward or unwise, it was courageous and consistent and demanded a settlement on a piece of legislation which has kept shipping interests in a state of complete uncertainty since its first introduction. As in the case of the British debt, once the uncertainty is cleared up in one way or another...
...closed. Many borrowers, after studying late in the evening, would prefer a midnight pilgrimage to Widener before going to bed, rather than wake in time to return their books by nine in the morning. Still more, leaving Cambridge on Sunday for the day, they would be relieved of the awkward responsibility of returning their books between one and two, precisely the dinner-hour...