Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present membership of the club is 22 and, as a large percentage of these are Seniors and will not be back next year, the officers of the club have departed from their usual custom and announced a short competition to fill the vacated memberships...
...troubles of Europe today, during all of her life and struggle, nothing could prove more lucrative than to begin this bright new day by listening to Professor Usher lecture in Widener U at 9 o'clock on the subject, "Disorders of the monetary systems of Europe." Having obtained his fill on the subject of European politics, the Vagabond may then turn his interest and attention to the politics of Chile, which has hitherto been considered but slightly in his daily walks around the Yard. The Vagabond may learn of the most recent political developments in Chile, from Professor Haring...
...Ruth St. Denis one of America's premier interpretive dancers, stated in an interview with a Crimson reporter. "Interpretive dancing has just started in this country; 80 years ago not a dozen people would go to see the same type of performance with which we are now able to fill houses all over the country. Of course it will always be less popular than modern jazz for it can never become a common type of dancing. Popular dancing such as the modern fox trot must be essentially simple so that it can be learned easily...
...core of this book* is a diary. In the core are seeds: "In the 41 years I have been here I have convicted persons enough to fill a passenger train of 61 coaches. . . . I have destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature." "The place for a woman's body to be denuded is in the privacy of her own apartments with the blinds down." "Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office...
...This inability to comprehend certainly the workings of the animal mind has led to two extremes, the one typified by Descartes, who, as a serious part of his philosophy, contends that animals are as insensible as a stone or wood, and the other by the pseudo-scientific sentimentalists fill the libraries of our youth with their morals and essays...