Word: ies
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...selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...
...schoolboy who has chewed his pencil top ragged trying to decide between an el and an ie will be the first to favor Mr. Blaneo's suggestion. But those who have emerged from that untutored age usually take a craftsman's delight in puzzling out the jumble of vowels and consonants that represent primitive grunts and groans. Even if by simplification English could become the world's language a vigorous cry must be raised against such a process...
...decision written by Mr. Taft was: "But the law gives the person convicted of contempt in such a case the right to have the whole question on facts and law reviewed by three Judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals who have had no part in t>ie proceedings, and, if not successful in that court, to apply to this court for an opportunity for a similar review here...
...Mass. Wednesday, February 6. German A1. Lower Mass. German C1. Harvard 5 German S. Harvard 5 Physics B. Upper Mass. Geology 22, Zool. Mus. rm. 3 Archaeology 4, Harvard 5 Thursday, February 7. Greek A, Sever 30 Greek 8, Sever 29 English 39, Sever 5 German ie, Sever 23 & 24 German 12, Sever 30 French 13, Sever 35 Italian 2, Sever 35 Spanish 5, Sever 48 Rom. Phil. 4, Sever 35 Slavie 1a, Sever 35 History 26, University 19 Education 1, Lawrence 1 Fine Arts 3, Harvard 5 & 6 Holden Up. & Low. Mass. Mathematics 1, University 19 Mathematics 28, University...
...forseen. The man who has no faith either accepts the uncertainty of life as a necessity of fate, he is caught in the net of a hidden destiny which to him can never seem anything else than a blind chance because there is no purpose and no love in ie: or else he fights against the uncertainty of life and tries to conquer it by his own skill and prudence and pertinacity. Thus every event that crosses his plan is a cause of anxiety and irritation, and every call of duty that lies outide of it is an interruption...