Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Gauss's comparison between the European and American attitude in this respect will doubtlessly delight the "bigger-and-better" gentlemen, but should make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...tool; the emptiness of his offices is often because another activity has occupied most of his attention. There is danger, however, that the president will be a china doll unless he drop outside attachments and concentrate his time in P.B.H. by accepting such labors as the Graduate Secretary would delight in handing over...
...their delight Travelers Binstead and Proud learned that the fifth match of the series was not yet over, that Batsman Bradman had just finished rolling up the impressive score of 169 runs. This helped swell Australia's first innings score to 604. England, which had won the first two matches at Brisbane and Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England...
...sure that it will be a delight to all his friends, both inside and outside the University, to know of this effort on his behalf, and you may have my most sincere wishes for all possible success...
...Idiot's Delight" is crammed with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous...