Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least, this was a most cowardly way in which to satisfy one's grievance. If you have a personal grudge against Ex-Governor Cox, why not come out like a man and state it so that he will have a fair opportunity for a reply...
Human vanity would come to the front, too, in supporting the sceptics. The scorn shown by the sharks for Mr. Heilner may not have been the fault of the fish but of the man. Even sharks have their preferences, and Mr. Heilner might not have come up to their standards. And who is the man who would admit himself to have physical qualifications so poor that a shark would not think him worth the eating? Far better not to offer him the opportunity...
...whole issue, is, in fact, far more New Yorkerish than any issue of that esteemed contemporary journal that has yet come to hand...
...latest step in that body's defiance of the nominally executive head of the country. Thanks to the announced views of the President not to interfere with the legislative branch of the government, he has let Congress ride roughshod over his opinions in nearly every important issue that has come before it. From the time of the passing of the Bonus Bill over his veto, both houses have had the bit in their teeth and have raced through a series of tax reduction, naval appropriation and other measures with complete desregard for his views. The "Big Stick" of Roosevelt...
...university is a miniature of the modern world, embracing every endeavor found elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation on this...