Word: betray
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their time at their coming convention at Harvard to find a way to make their journals fit to read. Some of the college papers are eyesores typographically, others read as though they were edited by grammar school students and still others, at best nothing more than glorified bulletin boards, betray a striking lack of initiative on the part of their managers. The influence, for good or evil, which a college newspaper possesses is not always appreciated. What effect it has upon the students of the college need not be seriously considered. But what effect it has upon students in preparatory...
...them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds "for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends who never weary, betray or forsake us!" --Boston Herald...
...school. Before the voyage across was ended he had acquired, by diligent and vigorous study, the power to speak, understand and write it with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English writings there soon ceased to be even a trace of whatever in writing corresponds to "accent...
...that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where the architectural and other remains of antiquity betray the presence of kings more ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata. Where does the romance enter, in the researches which Dr. Reisner carried on here? In the fact that the explorer finds the ancient statues of the Ethiopian kings in the very place that he was clearing...
...Many students, however, write bad English because of sheer ignorance. Errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure abound; students who have been warned several times continue to betray the influence of bad school training and years of indifference. It is significant to note that whereas of all students in the College who take or who have taken English A or English D approximately 8.5 per cent. have been reported to the committee, no less than 24 per cent. have been reported of those students who have been admitted as "unclassified" from other institutions and who have been exempted from...