Word: cores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...proposed to erect a skyscraper with Calvary Baptist Church as its core. Trustees resigned while Dr. Straton organized legal battles to justify his design. In this year also he frequented dance halls and composed his pornographic peroration upon the modern dance: "Crowded together . . . surging up and down . . . locked tightly in each other's embrace . . . with the cheek of the man against the cheek of the girl . . . sensuous strains of oriental music . . their bodies vibrating together and often coming into postures that were actually indecent . . . cigaret smoke . . . fumes of whisky . . . tipsy girls . . . young women who were raving drunk . . . surging . . . women...
...peculiarly Yankee, a blue-bellied, Vermont Yankee to the core. He had exhibited absolutely no initiative. He had spoken no memorable phrase. ... He played no poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine...
Quarrel. As everyone knows the quarrel of the Holy See with President Calles has resulted from his enforcement of anti-religious clauses in the Mexican Constitution which were not enforced during the last presidency (1920-24) of General Obregon or previously. The core of the quarrel is President Calles' enforcement decree of July 19, 1926, authorizing the police to prevent priests from officiating until they register with the Mexican authorities. Straightway this decree was stigmatized by the Mexican Episcopate as an implied setting of the State above the Pope, and all Roman Catholic priests have refused to be registered...
...background of the Oxford man entities him to the privilege of scholar's freedom while the American student "needs the give and take of the recitation room and the careful, almost daily, guidance and supervision, not of one instructor but of several." Such treatment does not go to the core of difficulty which lies in the smattering methods of the secondary schools. These have, in turn been foisted on the school by the college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes the distributive in college entrance system of credit units, which emphasizes the distributive in college preparation and wholly overlooks...