Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunate predicament of the University Register has been only too long apparent. Its tardiness, its thanklessness, and its basic unpracticability have appeared quite plainly to all who were concerned with it. Heretofore no definite remedy has been suggested. It is now high time to find one, while the fate of the Register still hangs in the balance...
Thus in the undergraduate mind the Bible has passed to an unfortunate oblivion along with Latin grammars and first primers. In a great many cases it is saved from such a fate by the timely, if unpleasant, arrival of divisional requirements. True enough the student is still forced to pore over the carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before...
...Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race. The author's solicitude, here dispassionate, doubtless reflects the chagrin of President Wilson's friend and closest Cabinet associate at the fate of the Versailles Treaty. He pleads for constitutional adequacy to aid in preventing another world-wide conflagration...
...wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...
...ironic fate of Hans Andersen that he aspired vainly to almost every form of literary composition except the one in which he excelled. It was the tragedy of this neurotic genius's life that even the women he loved would not have him. He was the original "ugly duckling," and he never evolved into anything better than an ugly drake. After following Jenny Lind, famed "Swedish Night-ingale," over half the world, he died in discontented bachelorhood...