Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk is the fifth in a series of public meetings which the Socialist Club is sponsoring this year. All the meetings have a certain bearing on American political and governmental problems...
...kindred spirit. Perhaps in the working out of the autonomous plan at Antioch can be seen the best example of what may be expected from this latest innovation. While there have been no complaints of flagrant abuse of the liberties enjoyed, it has been pointed out that a certain degree of the freedom has not been without its disadvantages. A working plan of study is as essential to the most distinguished honors man as to the gentleman with "C's". That a program developed by an inexperienced undergraduate is beset with the dangers of a myriad attraction likely to dissipate...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
Male Brooke of Liverpool hinted darkly that "certain masculine women dare do all that may become a man. . . . Pupils of both sexes should be vigorously protected from the influence of persons of that type...
...Orleans, Stevedore Vito Longo, 55, taxied to an undertaking shop, had himself fitted for a high-priced coffin, paid for it, drove on to a cemetery to make sure the casket would neatly sink into a certain tomb, returned to the mortuary, stayed there. His wife and sons could not explain his suicide...