Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, a terrible fear of the great geese that were driven in flocks through the streets of Odense, marching with a military step, their eyes glistening like buttons, and their red bills pointing forward in a row. When he beheld them he would run and hide behind the black pig, which was his friend...
...that the Senate has done such a thing will ever be the blackest blot our great nation has ever known. And what is still a greater sin is that any man would try to hide and excuse his own mistakes by laying them at the door of another man. . . . But both have gone before a higher Judge than man and each will receive his just dues. And I am in hopes Mr. Lodge repented his harsh views before he was called to meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim...
...reinforces it with the instance of a Yale man, reared in France, who used French subjunctives as naturally as if he had been their inventor, yet failed in a course because he did not know the rule for their use. Using college board examinations as the prototype of hide-bound education, he seems to be deeply moved by the spectacle of so many young men marching doggedly, through the woods of college with nothing but a collection of crooked sticks in their arms at commencement...
...believe we have a more accurate and a more deeply significant knowledge of our Maker today than had the Hebrew Patriarchs who thought a man could hide from God in a garden, or who believed that God could tell man an untruth. (Genesis 2:17 states that God told man he would surely die if he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; man ate, he did not die, God knew he would not die therefore...
High up on the Pampas, a ranch which no bull's hide by any Carthaginian will could circle. . . A palace. . . Moving toward it a cavalcade of peons wearing sombreros, embroidered shirts, silver- studded belts, mounted on caballas . . . In a motor, a decorous Prince. It continued to be said that the Prince would be instructed by his royal parents to visit the West Indies, and that in consideration of this additional service rendered, he would be permitted a week on Long Island before going home...