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...caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies up. . . ." The horror of his unconfessed murder haunted him, but he dared not confess to priest or pauper, lest further disgrace crush delicate Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

What goal will such a grouping of students serve to approach? Any intelligently directed educational institution will, I believe, confess as its fundamental aim the encouragement of intellectual activity and the increase of intellectual power among its students. Its social structure should be planned or altered with this underlying intellectual purpose in mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What We Shall See | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

King-Emperor: Some very comical jokes used to be made about your excellent product, Mr. Ford. I confess to have chuckled at some of them but I cannot recall having ridden in one of your cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: London Notes | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...frank to confess that my interest in this campaign is personal far more than partisan. If I did not believe in the ability of Mr. Hoover to deal with the farm problem, if I did not believe he would in good faith uphold and enforce the Constitution, I can pledge you that I would not be undergoing the unspeakable hardships of a long campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...over here expecting to find Harvard a hotbed of collegiatism; my disillusionment was most welcome," John Maud, Davidson Scholar from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAUD DESCANTS ON HARVARD AND U. S. | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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