Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems. How many interested students of finance must there be who would desire an analytical lecture on the intricacies and potentialities of the proposed International Bank which is now engaging the minds of the financial giants of the world at Paris; how many close followers of international relations would enjoy an enlightening discourse on the underlying causes and conditions of the current Mexican disturbance. So, important world events, but sketchily I learned from newspaper reports, might well be treated from professional rostrums. --Cornell Daily...
...England and France enjoy an advantage over Germany in rehabilitating because they have enormous colonies. Both countries are doing their utmost to make their colonies great buying centres for the products of the homelands. As a result of this. England's trade with her dependencies is 46% of her total export business, while, before the War, it amounted...
...months of paternalistic culture and Trinity will be in a position today claim to the title, "best read college in America." The possibilities for dinner and pullman car conversations that these informed men will enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering...
...Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that the best men be assigned to the activity most in need of them: but that they be allowed to enjoy exercise. If some men like to play football in the spring, there is no justification for the stand that they should be made to go out for the lacrosse team simply so that team might have a winning season...
Lonely at first in Paris, Sam was able to drag her to all the places mentioned in the guidebooks, but only once would she sit with him at a sidewalk cafe. "Smart people don't." Sam sputtered over her reply: "Why can't you enjoy both as long as you do enjoy 'em? Nobody's hired us to come here and be stylish! We haven't got any duty involved! Back home there may have been a law against enjoying ourselves the way we wanted to, but there's none here!" "My dear...