Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Governor's Island, N. Y., March 5, 1917. SPECIAL ORDERS. No 55. (EXTRACT...
...person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...
...Book of Princeton Verse," edited by Alfred Noyes, Visiting Professor of English at Princeton, has just been issued. Something of the quality of the contents may be gained from the following extract from a review by Katharine Fullerton Gerould...
...this occasion. Directly afterwards the Freshman class will ascend the stands and pose for its picture. All members of the Freshman class should appear upon the scene with the pockets of their coats, trousers, and vests bagging with change, bills, and checks, since the Seniors will politely but repeatedly extract funds for the Senior Picnic...
...another extract Mr. Angell gives attention to War. "What is the problem of War?" he writes. "Why do nations give their first care to the preparedness for it? To defend themselves. But that means that someone believes in attack; otherwise, if no one believed in the effectiveness of successful attack, none of us would be threatened, and the whole problem would be solved...