Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isn't your husband alive...
...that it gives those participating a sure foretaste of the conditions they will constantly encounter in their life work. If it doesn't serve the former purpose in an individual case, then that individual has no business taking part; if it doesn't serve the latter purpose, it isn't a serious competition...
...game, he finds himself at the bottom of the list. If he is a candidate for an A.M., it is his one chance; but he must stand behind not only the Freshmen, who have four chances, but also behind all the graduates of Harvard College for ten generations back. Isn't it to be expected that he will feel that he is not wanted, and act accordingly? You can not expect a man to praise your hospitality when you invite him to sit down on the back porch...
There is a popular song whose refrain runs thus: "Isn't it strange how the times have changed since Grandpa was a lad". Man faces now, as always, the problem of working longer hours and so producing more, knowing that beyond a certain point the fruits of his labor will accumulate faster than he can use them in his shortened period of leisure. Somewhere a balance must be struck. It is possible, however, to increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn...
...little in them that you can get your teeth into; little that would be likely to start a discussion at a club table. Nevertheless the touch of journalism in the Advocate is to be welcomed; not because it is better to write about athletics than about books,--for it isn't,--but because the inclusion of articles on athletics saves the magazine from suggesting a sort of album in which themes of distinction are placed on display for the edification of specialists in English composition...