Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alarmists, those people who see in the lectures of a courageous leader of thought or in the ebb of the New York market the fires of a great and devasting uprising, lead by the "reds". Who the "reds" are has yet to be decided. Perhaps Mr. Hovey will find that when he discovers why "socialists" are per se wicked...
...denouncing the plan Mr. Boynton went on to say that the appointment is uncalled for because the jury, in the case was a fact-finding body and that at that time the attorneys for the defense were able and fully competent to avail themselves of any opportunity to find errors if they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions...
...roommate is a sturdy fellow. Nor has he changed, in weeks. So before you could say your prayers or take a final or even find a pretty debutante, there we were at the circus with peanuts crowding their impulsive way down the leathery necks of mauve pachyderms, horses, horses, and my rooommate absent mindedly dangling a red balloon over his right tonsil...
...project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained and sub-servient respect and that it is now prepared to partake in active guidance. If their belief is representative of their university its accuracy and justice will find ample room for demonstration on the acceptance of the Constitution which embodies their aims...
Then things began to go badly for him. Dagny Kielland was unable to find in Nagel any of the well rubbed familiar surfaces, common to all men, by which people are accustomed to identify, if not to understand, other people. He remained a mystery to her. Nagel realized that it was impossible for her to penetrate the dark secrets of his mind. With the teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white...