Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs alone. "Whether they [Swiss correspondents in Germany] continue to peep through keyholes and burrow in dirty political washing, they may be left to their fate. Their business, however, must show a sinking tendency in proportion to the realization by their lonesome readers in Germany...
...present written examinations are an hour long but candidates will be allowed an hour and a half for the new Latin test. It will consist of passages from Virgil or Ovid, Cicero or Ceasar, and two passages, of which the candidate must translate one, from Mediaeval and Renaissance poetry and prose...
...readers must be the composition of the so-called obesity cures. You failed to mention one of the most widely advertised of these-Kruschen Salts. This was analyzed by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven some years ago I Bulletin 341. July, 1932] and was found to consist "essentially of a mixture of Epsom and Glauber salts.'' This puts it in the class with the other "cures" that work thru their laxative action. . . . HENRY S. JOHNSON...
...first, which is slated to get under way at 5.30 o'clock; and with Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, and Winthrop competing in the second, which is supposed to start at 6 o'clock. There will also be a race for those Houses which have second crews listed. These consist of Eliot, Kirkland, and Lowell, the contest being scheduled to begin at 6.30 o'clock today, instead of tomorrow, as previously planned...
...toms, kettledrums, triangles, and various other percussion instruments will accompany the chantings of the Greek chorus, which is to consist of two groups of eight singers (members of the Giee Club in everyday life.) The music, or "rhythmic score" as it is known in this instance, has been written especially for "A Bride for the Unicorn" by Virgil Thomson, a rising star among young American musicians...