Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again Judge Toereky made no attempt to fix the purpose of the plot, since so much as to hint at the return of the Habsburgs might result in serious trouble with France...
Interference which in New York State is in the form of an optional hint all too easily turns to iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
...university plan ? six bodies of students, 250 to 300 strong, housed in more or less segregated groups of dormitories, eating in their own dining halls, responsible to their own deans. The assignment of separate faculties is not included in the plan. The advantages were not elaborated beyond a hint that the policy of "athletics for all" would be furthered, and an observation that Harvard's buildings happen to be so arranged that only two of the six proposed building units would have to be specially erected...
...most famous of the cafes facing the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Pulling out a wad of 100-lira notes, he tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...
...first hint of how the University baseball team will line up in its first game of the season against Boston University next Saturday was afforded last Saturday afternoon. It was announced at the same time that a change in uniforms of the players had been made and shirts with the word "Harvard" upon them will be substituted for the plain shirts hitherto worn...