Word: disturbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling figure-bulky, halt, not a hair to disturb the glassy smoothness of his pate, and a bush for a beard...
...sincerely hope you will soon get through printing such atheistic fulminations as that of Stanley B. Altman [TIME, May 30] .... Personally I am a profound believer in God and religion; but if I were to lose my faith, I certainly would not want to disturb the faith of others. I agree with Robert Quillen who says that there is a mean streak in anyone who tries to destroy the faith of another...
...there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their physical appurtenances, with the feeling of a preconceived ability to dispose of these forms within their foreordained niches. The overwhelming ramifications of the puzzling ideas of Relation, Appearance, and Reality, which are suggested by inference, may here easily disturb and amaze us, and yet remain on first reading upon a separate plane from the actual passage of these chronicled events. But a more leisured reflection upon the nature of this book may easily start thought coursing through the various strata of speculation from Gulliver and Mark Twain to Bradley...
Pray don't disturb...
...once this year has the student body, or a part of it, shown any real spirit, and that was the Tuesday evening preceding the Texas football game when the mess hall went wild. Since then not a bubble has come to the surface to disturb the utter tranquility of Rice undergraduate affairs...