Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always be found. But, the question rises, would that process be really representative? There's no denying that we, as a group, hold ideas which, though not lofty nor all-embracing, interest and influence us. "Hash parties" or "bull sessions" stand proof to this. And after all, the world isn't really fooled into believing we are always serious. So let's be ourselves and dare to express some of our more frivolous ideas. Radcliffe Daily...
...anew. "That is the trouble with education; they try to fill you full of a lot of stuff that never will do you any good. I suppose Greek and Latin are going to help you make money, or Shakespeare to do a good job delivering letters? My son isn't going to take any of that stuff--he's going to take practical subjects, Chemistry, Physics, Manual Training, accountancy, and things like that. His old man would be an A.B. if they had known how to do things then...
...visiting church worker, Mrs. Jennie Goldstein, plump, fur-coated, wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and with prayer books and a bundle of religious tracts tucked under her arm, paused and twittered to Head Keeper Edward A. Glennon, "It's a very fine day the good Lord has given us, isn't it?" "A fine day, indeed!" roared Head Keeper Glennon as Mrs. Goldstein turned to leave by the prisoners' entrance instead of the visitors', and clapped her back in her cell...
...people. . . . "[However] we will agree to publish Mr. Hoover's views on hoarding as free advertisements IF Col. Knox will agree to give us an equal amount of advertising space in his paper ... in which to express our views on prohibition and Mr. Hoover. That's fair, isn't it, Colonel?" If Col. Knox thought the offer fair...
...wrecked, an idealist is shot and therefore a man somehow becomes reconciled to his daughter. The connection between these dramatic entities lies solely in the fact that they occur on the same stage, and weary first-nighters could heartily concur in the German engineer's observation that "this isn't a country, it's a debating society." The uniform worn by a commandant of Free State constabulary is very impressive...