Word: detachedness
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Cliff. A cliff (unnamed) was shaken from a mountainside at a place (unstated) in the Peloponnesus by an earthquake tremor, which registered on various foreign seismographs. The detached fragments of rock struck a Greek railroad train, obliterated three coaches and many of their occupants.
"Effective College." The Association of American Colleges convened in Manhattan and devoted three days to discussion of "the effective college." Dr. Frank Aydelotte, President of Swarthmore College, made the main address. Dr. John H. Finley of the New York Times, Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation and Dean Herbert...
Good biographies become constantly more numerous, and often, more amusing; but there are several which are serious and critical and full of detail. "John Keats" by Amy Lowell is a monumental work which has created much discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in...
Elliott Kirk declines the call to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, for receiving his decision with a certain degree of amazement. Amazing as it is, however, and regrettable from New York's point of view, it must be regarded with deference. . . . Far from regarding the ministry as a career...
The Plea. The proper time having arrived, Colonel Moreland asked how Colonel Mitchell pleaded to each of the eight charges and two other questions as to how he pleaded in general. In a detached monotone Colonel Mitchell replied::