Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painfully conscious of our own weaknesses. We represent in India all the principal religions of the earth and it is a matter of real humiliation to confess that we are a house divided against itself, that we Hindus and Mussulmans are flying at one another's throats...
...Either alternative will be unpleasant. Indeed it is obvious that the limits of direct taxation have been reached and the gap is not going to be filled merely by reiterating our fiscal convictions. I prefer to see the gap bridged by effective economies, but I confess the gravest doubts whether the MacDonald Government is capable of effecting economies on the scale needed...
...from Cirencester, was an Apparition; Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad? Returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang." Strachey's apophthegmatic irony is reminiscent of the 18th Century (which he calls "that most balmy time"): "To confess is the desire of many; but it is within the power of few." "In Latin countries-the fact is significant-morals and manners are expressed by the same word; in England it is not so; to some Britons, indeed, the two notions appear to be positively antithetical...
...that has nothing to do with releasing so-called atomic energy. There is no such energy in the sense usually meant. With my currents, using pressures as high as 15,000,000 volts, the highest ever used, I have split atoms?but no energy was released. I confess that before I made this experiment I was in some fear. I said to my assistants. I do not know what will happen. If the conclusions of certain scientists are right, the release of energy from (he splitting of an atom may mean an explosion which would wreck our apparatus and perhaps...
...years, in translation) anniversary at Exeter. The Oriental Sage objected to the intrusion of business, emphasizing the fact that he had laid aside his plans to foretell the final scores of the Harvard-Princeton polo match and the Harvard-Holy Cross baseball duel. And here, the Vagabond must confess to a sad outcropping of a little hasty irritation. He wanted to hear President Lowell speak.... he has never missed hearing the President of Harvard since he's been writing copy for the CRIMSON.... and he didn't intend to spoil his record. So, in his petty anger, he unthinkingly insinuated...