Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect that I did not have any plans of upsetting the United States government," were his first words. "This prevents me right away from giving any of my really personal views on the subject of 'prohibition'. I don't feel a bit inclined to criticise your country anyhow. It isn't done, you know. I am a visitor, a guest. But I certainly can say that I would object to my own state dictating my diet. I really think it is rather a bad thing for a policeman to tell anyone what dinner he should have. Then, for the same...
...work, while the atmosphere of Oxford is merely to have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish science thrust on one. But after all, Oxford isn't a university; it is simply the playground for the English gentry...
That college chemistry isn't entirely a matter of bad smells and minor burns is shown by the nearly tragic occurrence which happened at Brown recently. A cylinder containing phosgene corroded and allowed this most dangerous gas to escape throughout the chemistry building. Prompt action on the part of members of the chemistry department saved many people from this menace. One of the professors entered the building equipped with a gas mask and placed the tank in a solution of sodium phenolate to neutralize...
...cruel; an Englishman if it's explained to him; and a German if it's on somebody else; but an American is the only man on earth who can understand a joke on himself. The American sense of humor is a bubble on the cup of courage." Isn't there a Japanese sense of humor...
...necessary that the candidate should dissertate on his own merits or virtues, in order that his classmates may become acquainted with him. But isn't it only fair that a class officer, or a candidate for class office, should be more than a name on a slip of paper...