Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to resign as Grand Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose...
...cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany the "mother" as "growlers." Then eventually all disappear into slush. The Tampa or Modoc...
...himself. He abhors the "grind", or anything that looks like one. As for himself, he has won social distinction. He is elected to a club, or to half a dozen and the effect is cumulative. Thus he tends to over-rate this aspect of his education and be content with a "gentleman's C" in his courses...
...worthwhile as, a motorman on a dinosaur. The Debating Union could well indulge in debate on the Federation's merits. They could have pondered forensically the worth of the Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could wish differently for Harvard needs an open forum much more than she needs an Association of Readers of Clinical Notes. To be or not to be--really, the Debating...
...Times, speaking editorially of this contest, says in part: "The results of the examinations which will be held in these several Institutions before the end of the academic year, each institution determining the content and method of its own examination, should be at great significance and indicate in what ways the newspaper may be a more general and effective means of education in America. They should also be helpful to the whole movement in adult education. The incidental inter-university contest will open a new field for friendly intellectual competition in subjects of universal human interest and, if successful, should...