Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a Japanese whose only defect is his willingness to work hard for little pay can be a desirable citizen. But when the Japanese attack a dismembered nation struggling with the disasters of a flood, and refuse to join wholeheartedly in the peace-efforts of the world, prejudice is bound to influence people's judgment...
...kind of preparation will serve about as well as another. Or, what is worse, the mechanical and shortsighted kind will be most effective, and there will be no tendency for the school training to become more educative. Now with so many scholarships and so many examinations there is bound to be a good deal of variety. It would take a more intimate knowledge than I possess to make a precise estimate of the system. But it is clear that an attempt is made to test the candidate's thinking power, his command of English, and his mastery of English history...
...very attractive hypotheses. This is not the same as saying that Plato is nice to read. Most of the dominant currents of western life were concentrated at Athens, and where-ever the same interests come together again the Greek way of finding a place for all of them is bound to exercise a powerful fascination. Moreover a method had been evolved by abstract philosophizing for dealing with these various interests. An intensity of social life had been achieved which fused them together in the common consciousness and demanded the highest type of poetic expression for the new unity. Plato formulates...
...Life" ends and the new begins, people will take down the dusty bound volumes reflecting that "Its foe was folly, and its weapon...
Aiming to be "American in the sense that the writings of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson are American," a new Bible came off the presses last fortnight printed and bound like any novel. Eleventh version in English since King James I's 54 scholars issued their revision in 1611, The American Bible is newly translated from the original texts, result of some six years of labor by five able savants.* Secular in appearance but convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins...