Word: hints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...general slight. Mr. B. P. Clark shows again his command of melody in the first two stanzas of his "Living Song," but here, as in his "Poplars," there is a falling off at the close. His "Yesterday and Tomorrow" is beyond me. I suppose he means to hint at the kindness of a woman and the unkindness of a man; but I fail to grasp the symbolism...
Heretofore, it has not been necessary to mention such things; they have gone without saying. Since, under changed conditions, there have been signs of such a spirit developing, it seems necessary to hint to the members of the Freshman class that they have at last stepped over the azure threshold of childhood, and that they should realize it as soon as possible...
...practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything else but to hear well-spiced dialogue for its own sake or for the sake of the whims of its author, "Androcles and the Lion" is the wrong thing to see. For every human person with the least hint of an eclectic taste, it cannot help but form part of an unforgettable evening in his theatrical experience...