Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take warning, men of Harvard. Joe Forecast is not predicting a defeat for the Crimson. He is merely offering a fashion hint: to wit, the well-dressed Harvard man will keep the flaps on his pockets buttoned...
...Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity. Moreover Author Lehmann writes with a sensitive and fine precision, she betrays in herself an exquisite perception of subtleties...
...nearly a year Major General Leonard Wood had been suffering from poor health, yet he steadfastly refused to allow anyone to hint that he would give up his post as Governor General of the Philippines...
...sure, what a fitting transition; from the pinnacle of U. S. aspiration to a position of cloistered distinction, where Mr. Coolidge could round out his days impressing lofty tradition upon malleable youth by quiet example. No voice from Amherst spoke out to deny or affirm the Times' hint. President Coolidge of Amherst College seemed a development as likely as it was fitting...
...credits. This game would stop and the players either go home or work seriously, thinks President Mason, if comprehensive examinations were substituted for the present credit system wherein each course passed, each "credit" won, is an integer in the formula of "Success." President Mason went so far as to hint that the University of Chicago might be among the first to "demonstrate the courage to calmly abolish the entire system of credit bookkeeping."* If colleges are going to be less mechanical about how they teach, they will need to be more scrupulous about whom they teach. President Arthur E. Morgan...