Word: differently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases differ: Mr. Smith, a politician with ambition, had received money from an interested businessman; Mr. Gould, a businessman, had helped out a needy politician...
...books* differ little in subject matter. Both boys lived in midwestern hamlets where the livery stable, the barber's or the harness shop was the centre of culture. The church was either used as a storehouse or ignored. School was prison. The lasting impressions Huck and Tom have of school are the whisperings of bigger boys about differences and relations between men and women. Boys lay under plank bridges to spy up at passing women. Their little brothers were often born just the other side of thin partitions between bedrooms and perhaps only a night or so after they...
...direct teaching. Charles William Eliot demanded that the teaching should be interesting; that it should be so arranged as to appeal to the student for its own sake and have some relation to the things which he was going to do with himself afterward. We may differ with him as to some of his theories of teaching or some of his ideas as to what the college course should emphasize; for like most successful reformers, he had a rather blind faith in his own cherished principles. We may even doubt the usefulness of the elective system, as he carried...
...knowledge of the best that had been thought and said, to include broader intellectual activities; in particular a more flexible attitude toward science and philosophy." Professor Morse went on to say that in this country such an expansion would necessitate the recognition of Mathematics in three roles which differ greatly from the popular conception of the subject...
...stabber," gasped one student, "how about calling the cops?" At this point Casey opened his eyes and laughed. So did Hallisey. The blood was red ink, the dagger rubber, the fight a charade planned by Professor Wheaton for the purpose of illustrating that the tesimony of eyewitnesses can differ. On Dec. 7, in Professor Wheaton's fully equipped courtroom at the law school, Hallisey will be tried for "assault with intent to kill." Senior law students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from...