Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dear Usbek...
Princeton is to erect a most expensive chapel with all the English Gothic fixings so dear to the American heart, possibly including secluded stalls in the choir for the members of the eating clubs. With this announcement came the blasting notice that the undergraduate body was petitioning for the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance...
...most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught last year by fishermen than were caught 30 years ago. That is a decrease of 75%, with the result that, today, shad on the table is positively dear...
...this Universe-City I find every type of mind and character that could be herded from the remotest ends of the earth, and the supreme purpose of every man seems to be to make a noise in his own peculiar way. I have always been under the impression, my dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause...
...very discouraged, my dear Usbek, and unless I soon discover some justification for the claim they make here at Dravrah that they educate men. I shall have to conclude that they don't. Mirza...