Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form the letters of even the smallest college team which invades the Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
...Schmalhausen embarks upon his preface with the following portentous sentence: "The main thesis of this volume is simple and lucid, to wit: that critical-mindedness spells enlightenment while credulity spells superstition; that America, speaking educationally is persuaded that critical-mindedness is a crime against bad manners; that the capacity for self-delusion is the over shadowing defect of the human mind, nowhere more in evidence than in optimism-haunted America; that the pursuit of knowledge somehow manages to ignore the pursuit of wisdom; that facts are mistaken for comprehension and information mistaken for insight; that, in short, our education stresses...
...every other week, the office hours being from 4 to 6 o'clock and 7 to 9 o'clock every day except Saturday and Sunday. Each new client that comes in during that time is the client of the man then on duty and it is his office to follow up the case until it is settled. Each week the board of directors meets to discuss all cases which have come up, and to offer advice...
Tomlinson's name is little known except to those in that group who follow literature closely; yet it is almost the unanimous opinion of that group that Tomlinson is entering a fame closely analagous to that of Joseph Conrad. Conrad had been writing for twenty years before "Chance" aroused the applause of the public. A perusal of all previous Conrad books followed and books long on the market were hailed as great...
Talk. It was during a monotonous discussion of architect's plans for the building of a new home for the League. French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand dozed, snored, awoke, fidgeted. Suddenly he sat upright, waved to German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to follow him outside. Both statesmen arose. M. Briand annoyed the earnest delegates by knocking over a chair and received their concentrated glare for his clumsiness...