Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will have to omit a good deal which we would like to publish. The Conference passed judgment on all the prose and verse which is to be used so that for us there remains only the mechanical work of sorting out the correct amount of work to fill the Anthology...
...some ninety issues past, TIME has come to my desk. Concise, informative, refreshing in its editorial style, it has come to occupy a place in my current reading no other publication can fill...
...draw has made it possible for the Crimson racquet swingers to fill both of the final berths, as they are all in the upper bracket. Baring upsets, Rawlins and Debevoise should meet in the round before the semi-final with the winner playing Wright providing also that the number one man on the University team makes his way through the first five rounds without mishap...
...venerable monuments of antiquity. This is what makes a visit to Rome, Athens, or Memphis so impressive, so full of awe. In the Museum are written records of a period so ancient as to make moderns of Moses and Homer, revealing a civilization so remote as to fill our minds with wonder. These oldest remains come, of course, from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the culture of which was a mixture of Semitic and non-Semitic elements. This culture profoundly influenced the younger branches of the Semitic stock, and, through them, all of western civilization...
...Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully...