Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Macauley and Queen Victoria on a Desert Isle...
...survivors, including Miss Smith, O'Malley and 43 of the 50 orphans, landed on a nearby desert island. There the perfidious sailors, led by a knave named Thinkwell, deserted them, stealing off by night with one of the long boats. Dying a respected man of property as such a character was sure to, Thinkwell left a written confession which, 70 years after the scurvy deed, fell into the hands of his grandson, a lecturer at Cambridge. Lecturer Thinkwell set out with his three children to investigate and, if possible, to right the wrong done by his unscrupulous forebear. For, thought...
...effort. "Years ago," says Roscoe Pound, "I deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice." That he says, is work which he was come to understand. It is work which he cannot now desert...
...Have we lost the American spirit that fought Great Britain? Nor would I have my government-the best there is in the world-forget what compulsory expatriation means to an American citizen. We shall refuse to desert 10,000 American citizens who relied on the word of our Government. As for myself, I shall refuse to palter with conscience, I shall refuse to be a party to the abandonment of American citizens...
...voice" and unctuous "Goodnight" to churchly spheres, has already found legitimate application in the extension of university courses. Grandma and Grandpa Applebloom have been lapping up Professor Whosis' course on the philosophy of transmigration and the psychology of the billboard. Streams of erudition have been poured forth upon the desert...