Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The following is typical of the arguments of those in favor of the resolution: "To vote for tax-exempt securities is to write after the income tax schedule the following amendmnt: 'Providd, however, that the payment of these taxes is at the option of the taxpayer, and if he...
Each year the modern man contrives new methods to meet the rush of a civilization so much newer than himself, and with almost every invention he gets a half-hitch on progress and pulls himself up a few degrees to a more equal footing. The history of the world, the...
The redoubtable Pite seemed to possess a mania for shooting whenever he got his hands on the ball and his desire for individual glory hampered his team's progress. The Yale attack improved, however, as the game aged and the excellent play of Suisman and Haas cut down the Crimson...
"At the beginning of the second half-year," went on Col. Browning, "several men tried to sign up for Military Science as a half-course. When pressed, they confessed that their eagerness to take the course was due to their desire to play polo. They seemed to think that polo...
A lack of educational desire combined with the inability to concentrate leads naturally to reliance upon the tutoring school, where, as the Dean points out, "the man with the twenty-four hour mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature...