Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there is a great deal to be said on each side in the controversy which has arisen between William T. Tilden and Harold H. Hackett, former champion, there can be nothing but the deepest regret that such a shadow should be cast on one of America's cleanest sports. It has always been thought that this of all games was a true example of sport for sport's sake. This squabble over policies and personalities between two such prominent men is as unfortunate an occurence as has arisen in the history of tennis...
...greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness. One is inclined to impute the passiveness of Mount Holyoke students under this oppressive regulation to ignorance of the distinguished precedents for unstandardized speech rather than to conviction of the worthiness of the purist ideal. And even so, it is hard...
...will say little; the subject presents few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man nor are you, gentlemen the men to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness and systematic villainy. It is difficult to smile with an aching heart?it is ill jesting when our deepest sympathies are awakened. My client's prospects are ruined. All is gloom and silence in the house; even the voice of the child is hushed . . . while his mother weeps...
...officers of the class of 1926, on behalf of the members of our class, wish to extend our deepest sympathy to Mrs. Emma M. Gilfoy, on the loss of her son, Bernard Anthony Gilfoy...
...converted to the Episcopal faith. His son and daughter by his first marriage openly disapproved of the second and did not attend it. The second Mrs. Harrison bore her husband one daughter. Since his death (March 13, 1901) she has lived very quietly. Last week she telegraphed Mrs. Harding : "Deepest sympathy to you from one who has had a similar anxiety and sorrow. This is a grief to the whole country...