Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From these figures anyone may see just where he stands in the scale of vocabulary and intelligence. If any individual is sufficiently interested to test his own verbose store. Let him search through an unabridged dictionary, as advised by Dr. Vizetelly, and find out As a preliminary to this task. Dr. Vizetelly, suggests a test of perseverance. Fill, he says, a tumbler full of dried peas, place it in one room, and carry the peas one by one to fill and empty glass in another room. If one is able to do this, he is qualified, to try the vocabulary...
...directly quoted as follows: "On this trip America has seen me. . . . Next time I want to see America. . . . "You of America seem perfectly healthy, perfectly efficient. But one can be that and still miss much. Poetry, religion, tradition and poise - do you sufficiently value them? . . . Why, you have hardly let me finish a sentence during my tour before rushing me off to see something else. . . . You are young. Old Europe can teach you spiritual education. . . . "But you have been very kind to me! The hotel keepers learned, for example, about my dislike for warm rooms and adjusted the heat accordingly...
...trees that kneel, faces and hands and walls that tilt with some interior volition- these he painted. To describe his paintings in this way is to speak principally of the thought that organized them; of his color critics have said "Tintoretto," of his fluidity "Byzantium." Whatever such words mean, let them stand. They are good tags because they mean little, explain nothing. No one has ever explained Dominico Theotocopuli. Neither arrogant nor humble, he loved arrogance and understood humility. He painted many gentlemen of Spain for their pride, their narrow hands, their pale and pointed faces, their ruffs and their...
...Material help was not all for which the post-war student sought. He was deeply interested in the question of how the young academic generation might help to make forever impossible a cataclysm like that of the World War. Let us create bonds of mutual esteem and friendship among students of the world' reads the first resolution adopted at Strassbourg, and the founders immediately inaugurated a detailed program for a re-establishment of international academic relations. They inserted the National Unions of Students to establish permanent commissions for international student cooperation and to send annually five delegates from each country...
...Mexican religious laws was inspired by those higher up. Such methods are more worthy of the Balkans than of a government which has supposedly stood for peaceful are traction of international disputes. If this government really has a case, which seems doubtful in view of the preceding facts, let it be taken to the World Court or the Hague Tribunal for settlement...