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Word: casualities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most part the book is composed of fragments dealing with a wide variety of subjects, stray bits of Tolstoy an philosophy and opinion, little anecdotes, and casual impressions a gathered together with no attempt to make a unified whole. But through it all there runs the ever recurring effort of Gorky to classify Tolstoy and to determine if possible what manner of man he was. With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS - JOTS AND TITLES | 2/25/1921 | See Source »

Until taken out, Captain Sampson was the mainstay of his team. Downes and Rounds showed casual flashes. The defense, however was weak and the men did not work well together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY FIVE OVERWHELMS TUFTS BY 53-22 SCORE | 1/20/1921 | See Source »

...proposition smacks too much of small-town chamber of commerce advertising to make it even conceivable as a method of creating harmony from the discord caused by the present stacks. To see a great red "H" towering over the landscape from all points of view would scarcely give the casual observer an impression of Harvard dignity and learned calm. It were better to have Harvard study by candle-light huddled over a wood first than to have it so colossally misrepresented by the attempt to cover up the source of its heat and light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POWER HOUSE STACKS | 1/19/1921 | See Source »

...that he is capable of gaining political enlightenment from "any of several national publications of positive merits," and this carries with it the implication that he is capable of selecting just such publications. Presumably he knows precisely how to discount the influence of the editorial policy that, to the casual observer, has seemed to align most of the national publications of positive merit with one or another of the political parties, and to subject them to the influences of that party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Meistersingers" Once More | 11/1/1920 | See Source »

...most casual reading of the new Constitution will reveal the fact that it makes provision for many revolutionary changes. It provides for the direct election of the nation's chief executive. It establishes ministerial responsibility. And it embodies many things which have been much discussed in the United States; for example, the initiative and referendum, the recall, woman suffrage, proportionate representation, single tax, public ownership of railroads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEE AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN GERMAN CONSTITUTION | 3/4/1920 | See Source »

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