Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with Dr. Eliot's address on Friday, may I venture an essay upon a troublesome topic. I shall have been satisfied simply if my words invite criticism. Dr. Eliot seems in my opinion to have fallen into that most hazardous of determinations--that of moral evaluation. I should quibble more precisely over the word "unfortunate"--which he applies to the tendency of Jews to intermarry. It depends more entirely upon what Dr. Eliot holds to be "fortunate." If two people--I choose not to use the word "race"--are so entirely divergent that there is small likelihood that they...
...action of the present Congress is likely to be so important as that upon naval appropriations. As a natural acquel to the charge that the American navy has fallen below the 5-5-3 ratio set up by the Washington Conference, came proposals for a building program to restore that ratio. No less an authority than Secretary Wilbur has said that the only way of maintaining the treaty ratios of the respective fleets "will be by a building program commensurate with that of the other signatory powers." He estimates the cost of such a program...
...method of collecting the juice from the poppy is laborious. After the leaves of the flower have fallen and the capsules have assumed a whitish color, they are punctured in the evening with a small three-pronged instrument. The following morning, the juice, having exuded and thickened by exposure ot the air, is scraped off by a small iron instrument previously dipped in oil. It is then worked in a heated pot until it is thick and can be formed into cakes about four pounds in weight. The cakes are than packed in leaves to prevent them sticking together...
...margins. Harverford scored twice in this period, when the breaks of the game went its way, The ball rolled slowly between the posts on a 15-yard kick by Hoag shortly after the start of the game a shot Thomas could have stopped easily, had he not slipped and fallen. Twenty minutes later Barker with the help of the weather tallied again...
...many theories and too much talk about the Olympic Games. Try to make them what they are not, turn them over to the idealists and the newspapers, and the idealists and the newspapers will torture them out of their natural shape as they have tortured everything that has fallen into their clutches. Let them alone, to be nothing more than good sportsmanship with a little "blowing off of steam" to add zest, and they will continue to thrive-and to bring about good results in their own natural time