Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This work is being done regardless of the number of ships, submarines, or destroyers that any other country has. Our attempt is to create a well-balanced fleet," the Secretary said...
...shot put we can compare very favorably with Europe's entrants. Houser from California, winner in the 1924 Olympics, Swartz from Wisconsin, and Kuck from Kansas have all done 50 feet. The scores we have from Europe were the records established a year ago. Vahstedt from Finland ranks highest with 48.3 feet; he is followed by Brechenmacher and Janssons, both men being able to put the shot 47.3 feet. All these men have greatly improved, and can throw nine feet further, although no such results have been officially recorded...
...truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that Poe's reputation as a souse did more to boost him into tardy fame than a dozen "Ravens" would have done and in so doing is but illustrating the fact that to the average fellow in his senses the capacities of a notorious tosspot are more entertaining than the carryings on of some halfwit blackbird escaped from a nearby bird fancier's shop...
These periods, which are called "reading periods," will be given to assigned reading for laboratory work, to be done by the student without assistance from tutor or lecturer. A test of the reading will be given in the general examination. This means, as explained by Dean Moor, that there will be approximately six weeks in the academic year in which members of the three upper classes will be more or less engaged in educating themselves without help, or, it is added, hindrance from their elders. The great purpose of a college education being to train men to train themselves...
...novel, Mr. Lincoln's most recent book is rather a disappointment. It is well enough done, but almost to the extent of being overdone, for the story has a tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also...