Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This privation is the fruit of faulty reading assignment. Too often smudged excerpts from many and sundry volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...
...following excerpt would seem to indicate that food outside of regular meal hours was at a premium...
...have just read the excerpt from my letter in your issue of Aug. 31. It may interest you to know that when I wrote the Editor of the Christian Century, he excused his publication of the error by the fact that TIME had printed it, and that no denial had appeared...
Shortly after the protest was made, TIME appended to an excerpt from the advertisement a notice to the effect that "this advertisement will positively not appear again...
...planned, was brought to my attention a few days after reading your Times letter. Seeking help to prevent such lawbreaking at his reunion, the Rev. Clement G. Clarke of Portland, Oregon, a '95 graduate, wrote that he was communicating with you and others. In writing me he quoted an excerpt from a letter written him by the Chairman of his class Reunion Committee, an ex-President of the Yale Club of New York City, as follows...