Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money all that a prize entails. It is hardly a disgrace to have one's name in the catalogue as winner of a prize; and some of the awards even include medals lest the winner feel his labor insufficiently repaid...
...Lest his wife should be there...
...going through a miniature Renaissance. . . . Active political clubs and stormy Union meetings have attested to the reawakened interest in politics. Lectures have been received with the same enthusiasm, and even musical recitals have had an unprecedented attendance. This state of affairs has aroused the apprehension of "several acute observers" lest the symbol of the bulldog be no longer quite apropos. Donald Stewart has remarked that the bulldog is characterized among other things by his deep chest, undershot jaw, and "the complete absence of any intelligence." Surely this figure completely fails to symbolize the new era at Yale...
...party should have feared that the strenuous schedule of activities he has been following would seriously impair his health. When we hear that he has spent only four nights since his arrival in any other lodging than a Pullman car, we do not blame them for being anxious lest his preliminary activities tire him to the extent of making his attendance at the Conference unwise, if not impossible. We rejoice, therefore, to hear that the General shows few signs of strain, and has gained ten pounds since he landed in this country. This means that he will be able...
...ignorance of the forces of human nature is equally remarkable. We can run across the continent fifty miles an hour and fly through the air more than a hundred miles an hour. But within the last few weeks we in America were in a tremor of anxiety lest this mouth in all our towns and cities we should be hungry for want of food and cold for want of fuel, because the men on whom the community depended for food and fuel were quarreling among themselves and proposed to stop our supplies. Germany showed a wonderful knowledge of material forces...