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Word: easements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that the customary thing for the undergraduate logician to do who has solved Kant, chuckled at Leibnitz and written an original thesis proving that Nietzsche was an obscurantist with disguised nympholeptic longings is to take up this course by way of easement. The reviewer sat among scholars from the start. The one on the left took notes in French and German. The two on the right giggled over puns in the original Greek. All of them smiled when hour exams were announced. It was a disturbing atmosphere, although here and there were scattered other strays like the reviewer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...emphasis to the details which flow through the divorce court. Roosevelt once said that the way to obtain the repeal of an unpopular law was to enforce it. . . . If your wife is discontented, let her read Divorce and realize that it is something more than a simple and convenient easement of the bonds. If your husband seems to be wavering, let him read in these pages the misery, the heartaches, the legal dangers, to the end that his sanity may return to him. . . . It will be by no means dry reading for the public. These are human documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Divorce | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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