Word: gazed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard official to deny the premises cited above would be to indicate a certain dullness of perception. For him to gaze upon them and to deny their staring implication is, palpably enough, in the best style, but one is compelled to remark that it reflects no consuming courage. It will require courage to transport the course structure to its proper place in the academic system, to subordinate it to the tutorial establishment, to make its very existence dependent on the quality of its direction. It will mean treading on a great many well-polished toes. It is, admittedly, no task...
...placing drinking fountains in Mallinckrodt, or the necessity of forcing conformity on the faces of Memorial Hall clock. They will go to the present bull session, and there find subjects suited to the intelligence and grasp of the college student, and lurid enough to hold his wandering inner gaze. If these matters be important and serious, well and good; if not, still well and good, for no one will discern the difference or care...
...Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring in it; And I am but a glass between Un-walked in meadows, gold and green. The Author's most...
With just and pardonable pride, the Galileo High School in San Francisco points to the recent acquisition of a shiny new telescope. Galileo's sons and daughters may now gaze enraptured at the stars and count the seven rings of Saturn. Not forgetting in their glee, the cause of science, they will make observations, and send periodic data to the Harvard Observatory...
...China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve Chinese to bits...