Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapreau into the air-as Frenchmen will -the shots served happily to steady the nerves of all concerned. Last week the corps of reporters five was informed by the corps of physicians nine that quite possibly they would have to wait another two months, although of course they might...
...Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
Giuliano was only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married...
...burly like that of the University of Missouri, (see above), but a sepulchral silence, fell last week upon the campus of the University of Detroit. By order of the President (Dr. John Patrick McNichols), the 300 girl students were forbidden to converse with the 2,900 boy students. They might, if they wished, say "Good morning" or even ''How do you do,'' but nothing more...
...source of all his proudest efforts." Less tortuous is Mr. Mumford's own interpretation: "The white whale stands for the brute energies of existence, blind, fatal, and overpowering, while Ahab is the spirit of man small and feeble, but purposive, that pits its puniness against this might, and its purpose against the blank senselessness of power...