Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The participants in the Ruhr wrestling match evidently regard the Senator as Justice blindfolded with the scales in his hand, for they are preparing in hot haste their opposing cases. The French, although having little in the way of productive results to display, will show what a peaceful atmosphere hovers...
"This faith of ours in the justice of American public opinion," M. Roz continued, "has been one of the principal reasons why we trust the United States. There is but a handful of French people in this country, there are few Americans in France, and our national life differs from...
It is perhaps irrelevant to connect a doubtful metrical translation of Greek tragedies with the University's series of lectures on the four great epic poets given by eminent authorities. But both accomplish the same purpose; a sympathetic appreciation of the spirit of the originals. Few undergraduates read Milton thoroughly...
"The drama is an art, but it is also a business," he continued. "Because some musical comedy runs for three weeks in Boston, the theatre managers require that Shakspere must also run three weeks. Each musical comedy, or bedroom farce, as the case may be, is new to the public...
How is it possible to make the events of one period live in the minds of future generations, and it all cannot be recreated what should be stressed and what discarded? Today the hue and cry is raised against any history which subordinates the economic development of a nation to...