Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...queer" or "forced" as a part of a boy's education. He believes that schools have made a god of morality and been afraid of theology. He believes that boys are natural mystics, that the second decade is in all directions a romance. "Some colleges," he says, "will not grant a degree unless the senior can swim 100 yards; the school might make one condition for its diploma: the ability to recite the Sermon on the Mount...
...original mouth interiors mounted with full sets of teeth in gold and platinum. Not for these did Dr. Parr, Civil War veteran, mourn, but for three gold "sets" which were of immense historical value, being copies of oral equipment that Dr. Parr had constructed to assist President Ulysses S. Grant and Mrs. Grant, and President Chester A. Arthur to masticate their food. This celebrated trio were all onetime patients of Dr. Parr...
...critic always be blamed for his shrewishness. Even though one grant him a disposition superior to chronic mud slinging, his provocation is immense. Before rattling off the presses, most novels have endured compression to standard dimensions of theme and plot. More than human patience would be required for the reviewer to pick out minor originalities from this stereotyped mass. After all, acidity is the best antidote for dullness...
...realizing the futility of trying to fix wages for so long a period, felt it necessary to include a provision for periodic adjustment of wagesate resort in case negotiation failed. Right there was the centre of the disagreement. The miners demanded concessions. The operators would have been willing to grant most of these concessions, provided they could get arbitration for the future. But the miners answered it flatly: "No arbitration!" Each side tried to present its plan in such a guise that the other would accept it. Each time the other side refused to be "fooled." Finally...
...however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect to the wise and dangerous to the masses...