Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court] differs from the meaning actually entertained and intended to be conveyed by the company when it issued its policy, the company has only itself ... to blame, and it is justly penalized for attempting to express-or perhaps to conceal-the meaning intended by the use of a mere mark on paper...
...course, even if none of these secondary effects were produced, the mere fact of having a regular Western contingent in college, and a very select group at that, helps against too great provincialism. Also, in spite of the probably correct opinion of the scholars that Harvard is not yet a National Institution, they agree that they "get a lot out of it", and enjoy it besides. These goods are directly and immediately produced by the new scholarship policy. But without the indirect effects of advertisement, the good to Harvard as an institution ends with the influence on twenty scholars...
...demands that Mrs. Boegler be prosecuted, County Attorney Richard L. Becker said, "I cannot see that any laws are violated by these notes, and besides against such a person able to sway the divine will what could a mere mortal county attorney...
...concludes: "Rousseau stood, in opposition to our artificial and inharmonious civilisation, for the worth of life as a whole, the simple undivided rights of life, the rights of instinct, the rights of emotion. . . . This was the way in which he renovated life, and effected a spiritual revolution which no mere man of letters has ever effected. ... He is the supreme individualist, and yet his doctrines furnish the foundations for socialism, even in its oppressive forms. He is the champion of the rights of passion, and yet he was the leader in a movement ... of return to domesticity and the felicities...
...Jazz, he thinks, should not be considered in depreciatory sense, for in France the only American compositions thought worthy of notice are the popular songs. In the French musical magazines several pages each month are devoted to reviews of American records. Any other American musical offerings are considered as mere reflections of the music of the continent and unworthy of special attention...