Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept. 25: "All of us ... must take off our hats to the defenders of the Polish capital. . . . The kind of bravery shown by these soldiers in their capital city gives your own spirit a certain lift...
Scots ideas of discipline in child training molded the future Queen from birth. In her girlhood as Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, not only was she taught to cook, sew and garden but on certain days, dressed as a housemaid, it was her duty to show tourists the sights of Glamis and afterward when most of them offered tips she was Scotch about that too. About 30 miles from Glamis is the Royal Family's Balmoral Castle, and Queen Mary took an early fancy to budding Lady Elizabeth who presently in 1922 was bridesmaid to Princess Mary. King George...
...should welcome formation of the resoundingly titled "Committee to Save Education at Harvard". First, it shows an immediate awareness by students that the recent abolition of the middle rank of teachers directly affects them. Second, it is the nucleus of a group representing the undergraduate point of view on certain apparent changes in the teaching set-up. And the committee has stated that it aims to include all organizations whose members, as students of Harvard, are affected by the University's educational policies...
...Certain it was that many publishers, thinking only of the war blast and how to trim their sales to it, were neglecting for the moment their interests in literature of the permanent kind, but farseeing publishers noted one provocative fact in the publishing history of World War I. Buried in the lists were first books of such unknowns as Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson...
American Art Today, the collection of contemporary paintings on exhibit at the New York World's Fair, is not, from the point of view of art alone, worth seeing. However, certain phases of the exhibit are interesting insofar as they are able to show clearly the direction of a trend the importance of which is continually increasing in every field of modern culture. Seeds of social and economic maladjustment are beginning to take root on the canvases of many excellent artists...