Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest by the Houses, and for the Business School by the dining rooms in its dormitories; but there are one thousand graduate and fifteen hundred law students, beside others, mostly without provision. In their case Memorial Hall is by no means remote, and it has been proposed to fit it up for them, so far unfortunately without response on their part...
...Democratic party is a joke and its emblem properly a jackass, then the motto selected is appropriate enough. . . . Imagine the great leaders of the great party devising as a fit expression of their principles and their purpose the truly asinine motto, 'Hee! Haw! We're coming back...
...Abraham Flexner in his challenging book on "University American, English and German" says that "colleges do not know what they wish: "Do they wish brains? Do they wish "industry? Do they wish scholarship? "Do they wish character, or do they "wish 'qualities that fit for leadership'? They swing blindly and helplessly from one to another." But if he reads the report of President Aydelotte covering ten years at Swarthmore College, he will find at least one American college that knows what it wishes to do. The answer is very like the one which President Lowell has made for the American...
Because he considered an opera house no fit place for so sacred an opera, Richard Wagner, as long as he lived, never let Parsifal be performed anywhere but at Bayreuth. So special is Parsifal's appeal that it is not often given in the U. S. outside of New York. Last week the Chicago Civic Opera Company presented it for the first time in nearly nine years. Only great musicand equally great acting can convince a modern audience that a good woman would make it her business to go around seducing Christians just because she is under the spell...
...ophthalmic mechanics at Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...