Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nestor. Reposing in a sumptuous room in the new and brilliant Waldorf-Astoria, Senator Long pointed out that "the trouble with Washington is its remoteness from civilization--I never saw a place in my life that was so far away from the American people". But Huey Lond is no mere doctrinaire; he can treat the most practical problems with resource and agility. The case of the Waldorf sandwich is a case in point. With all the gilt and glitter of the new Astoria has come a change in the institution's culinary department. The new Waldorf sandwich lacks the Swiss...
...their profound knowledge of affairs by studious cramming of text books and outline magazines; still more have never so much as visited their constituencies; and all are forced to comply in their discussions to the strict limitations imposed by the two day period and the carefully prearranged program. The mere physical character of the Model League precludes any possible constructive conclusion...
...innovations are a desirable change in the meaning of a Ph.D degree in Sociology. It will cease to indicate mere pedantic knowledge of the facts in a restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work...
American women who curtsey three times at Court. Yet in at least half the hearts in Ireland burns a fierce hatred of the Emblem of Monarchy. To uphold this mere emblem Canadian Premier Bennett has not had to use bullets; but Irish President Cosgrave has, by due process of law. Every year of the past decade batches of Irishmen who wanted a republic badly enough to fight for it have been shot. Spattering lead creates the practical difference between Canadian "dominion status" and Irish, for there is no legal difference...
...book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been running all my life...