Word: likes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, will that bring into the system the Europeanized communities of Canada and Australia and South Africa and the other far-flung colonies dominated by Great Britain? On a basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question of foreign trade...
...smoothly as would be expected with Harvard's far famed management in charge. Only one cloud hangs over the scene, Eddie Farrell, Harvard's veteran track coach and trainer of the football squad, having been forced to stay behind with what looked very much like incipient appendicitis...
...evening shadows grow longer The Vagabond heads earlier for the big chair by the fire where mid clouds of smoke his dreams glow like the ruddy embers on the hearth. Quiet dreams they are--peaceful reflections that are needed to absorb a day of helter skelter educational scurrying...
Professor Rogers added that the lib- erals have a certain "self-righteousness" that he does not like. They believe that they are the only people who see the great light; all others live in the dark. The average liberal is an in-between; and there is a very sharp distinction between him and a radical...
...must face the face that this is only the beginning. What will Boston and Cambridge be fifty years from now? The Metropolitan District of Boston already has a population of about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...