Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will those Democrats regret it who can manage to get out of their own sections and see "what-all" there is in the biggest State of the Union. In Houston, named for General Sam Houston,* who amounts to a second George Washington for Texans, they will find a city almost as big as Denver or Louisville, bigger than Omaha or Atlanta, twice the size of Albany, four times the size of Mobile, with ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel...
Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
...first reflection on hearing that Cambridge students are beginning to find fault with the methods adopted for their instruction is one of surprise that they have not done so years before. Unless Cambridge be an exception to the general rule of universities, a large number of those persons engaged in teaching and lecturing are totally unfit for any such occupation...
...Winners must report the outcome of their matches immediately afterwards to the Boston Athletic Association at 80 Exeter Street, Boston. In the event of any entrant failing to discover in the newspapers today with whom he is to play, he will be expected to call at the Association and find out what match he drew...
...column such as the Student Vagabond. The Vagabond is designed to be of use to those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures the subjects of which happen to catch their interest. It is a matter of comparative case to find subjects in History, the Fine Arts or Literature which may be listened to with profit and pleasure by those having only a very general background of knowledge of the subject. In the sciences it is almost impossible to find such a subject. The comprehension of one lecture requires an exact knowledge...