Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rank List of the upper three classes of the University. Four of the five men who will lead the major sport teams-at the University this year are in the fifth or passing group, and a large number of H men are included in Group VI, which is "low pass...
...number of students in the College who finished the year with records too low for promotion was larger by over 50 men than last year. In 1923-24 248 men failed, while this year the total...
...would hate and loathe myself, if I could stand in the presence of such sights as I saw in the dance halls and not find myself stirred with wrath, and if my cheeks did not grow with hot shame, not merely that the human race had fallen so low in its tastes, but that men, for the sake of dirty gain, should be thus permitted to prostitute youth and to put a mortgage of immorality upon the coming generations...
...during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might be confronted with . . . the pomp, glamor, relays of military channels . . . maps, bugles and bells . . . with the resulting low percentage of hits, reminds one of a child chasing a bird . . . trying to put salt on its tail...
...story should have concerned the old man intimately since it devoted its comment to the cycle of reactions through which that dotard had just passed - the chemistry of the human spirit in the alembic of time. Outlined against the movement of the writing - a writing informed, under its cool, low laughter, with an unforgettable emotion - moved phantoms the old man knew, ghosts that had shared and lost with him the long war of innocence against the lie of actuality. Sometimes the clear words seemed about to utter the unutterable, to shape the secret that everyone knows...