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Word: certain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Business candidates are expected to solicit advertisements and subscriptions and to perform a certain amount of clerical work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monthly Competitions Start Monday | 2/26/1916 | See Source »

...University, Yale, Brown, Technology, and Springfield will all send full teams to this meet, and Tufts, Trinity. Colby, and Bates will each send certain men to different events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING ASSOCIATION FORMED | 2/25/1916 | See Source »

...business competition, which will be open to Sophomores only, will last until May 19, and will consist in canvassing for advertisements and subscriptions, and a certain amount of clerical work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Candidates Out Tuesday | 2/24/1916 | See Source »

That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF MORE RADICALISM. | 2/19/1916 | See Source »

...Perhaps the best thing in the issue is Mr. McCombs' review of one of those militaristic books which flood the shelves just now. In the form of a book-notice and in remarkably few words, the writer constructs a very neat case against the war maniacs. There is a certain cold charm in the temperance and lucidity of his style--a charm which we encounter frequently in the best work of the so-called "Pacifist" school, and which is in happy contrast to the bow-wow of the opposite camp. Mr. Reniers concludes his article on the moving Picture...

Author: By Cuthbert WRIGHT ., | Title: Little Fiction in Current Monthly | 2/18/1916 | See Source »

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