Word: bunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Agusto B. Leguia, Peru's malevolent despot, complained to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes that a bold, bad bunch of bankers, operating under the name of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan had been openly discouraging American loans to Peru...
America has the highest type of religion in the world today. America is also a very intolerant people. The highest type belongs only to about 1 percent. 50 percent are a bunch of slaves to creeds and fears and superstitions. The rest, the so-called "irreligious" are not so bad off however. I refrain from condemning them. A religious from condemning them. A religious bigot is worse than an American heathen...
...haven't the time; many are indifferent to all the bustle of their classmates. Apart from pecuniary compulsion or physical inefficiency, everybody does what he wants. A great modern college is a heterogeneous, cosmopolitan community which can't be made over into a village improvement society. Here is a "bunch" of undergraduates "going in for" settlement work, teaching night schools, deeply interested in their religious societies. There is another "bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers...
...ways of Socialists are not very different from those of capitalistic politicians. Eugene V. Debs is regarded as likely to be the next Socialist nominee for President. In Manhattan he stepped on a platform to address an audience of 2,000 people. Two little girls brought him a bunch of posies. He stooped and kissed them...
...Freshman squad was put through its first timed race. B. U. Swede, the brother of a former star Princeton distance runner, led all the other candidates by nearly 80 yards. The next three men, M. G. Shaw, H. L. Smyth, and E. B. Philipp, came in in a bunch, and were followed closely by Edward Gordon. These five men, with the next five finishers, I. W. Teele, A. D. Dowling, LeoRyan, J. F. Davison, and H. I. Hewitt, have been selected to eat at the training table. More men will probably be added later...