Word: mayhap
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...Mayhap the universities of Germany have gained more from the war than they have lost. For with the natural poverty of a pation in defeat, there has come a desire for practical knowledge given vent to in the tremendous of "bread" courses. Doubtless the German universities have torn a leaf from the merits of the American Business College. But also the have torn foreign appreciation for abstract learning which is so scarce in America. It is hard to conceive of a field more attractive to scholar and student alike, crowded as it is with thoughts new and old, with precepts...
This week the Fenway is offering "Steel Preferred" with a cast ranging all the way from Hobart Bosworth to Ben Turpin. Just how the latter leaked into the picture is still more or less of a mystery. Mayhap he went to sleep on the set and woke to find himself in the film. Another point which has never seamed quite plain to us is just why so many people think that Turpin is screamingly funny because the poor man has trouble with the focus of his eyes. It has always seemed to us that he managed to entertain in spite...
...Pope named these four, each cardinal present rose in his place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the ceremony of the "opening and closing of the mouth" as token of his silence on papal matters...
...Baldwin may have smiled to himself at the speech when he read it in the newspapers, but when he read "30,000 people . . . an hour and a half . . . pouring rain," doubtless he was not comforted in his homecoming. Mayhap he even cursed the little Welshman...
...Mayhap the curtain down on you will ring...