Word: cared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equipped with large-capacity pumps at her waterline, the Ethyl will roam the seas, sucking up 7,000 gallons of water per minute. A recovery plant on board is expected to extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...
...publisher of the magazine, a well known Cambridge tutor, has vigorously defended in his introduction to the first issue his action in putting the periodical before undergraduates. "These following translations," he says, "have been prepared with great care. They follow the original text literally thus forming a valuable and legitimate help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight...
Free democratic institutions, wrought painfully by the founding fathers, must not be jeopardized through the hasty words of an alien. What matter that any remarks of which Count Karolyi might care to unburden himself would be addressed to audiences already poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder...
...naming of the erstwhile Holden Twins which has dragged over so many months has been accomplished at last not only with care but with inspiration. The name of a college building seems a trivial thing, but actually it is the cornerstone on which all its traditions must rest. Those who have never seen the structure will think of it always by its name, from which they will create their own impressions. Those who know it well will make the letters above the doorway stand for a multitude of feelings, call to mind a host of memories...
...thought, correctly; he objected, and asked some questions about the cases of different words. I replied, as I thought, right, and proceeded again to translate. He again objected; I then turned over the leaf and seeing there were a good many more of them, told him I did not care to recite them...