Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pray was probably significant to a very small percentage of the student body of Harvard. Although for twenty years the Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture, his work was not of a nature to make him widely known among the men outside his department and its real importance might easily be overlooked...
...clarinet with liberal variation and the tone you seldom hear. The entire program is fond of that hilarious device--the kick in the pants. We counted a round half dozen, taking in the two movies and the stage show, and there were lots of times when we might have missed them...
Sirs: After reading your article on The Hill School in Feb. 11 issue I thought you might be interested to know that some public high schools are also doing this pioneer work. Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa.-a Philadelphia suburban High School-has for a number, of years, under the leadership of its principal, John H. Tyson, had a system of personal history cards, which are similar in purpose and idea to those of the Hill School. They are a four years' cumulative record of all that might help to determine a pupil's fitness...
...vacation was the one of the great confession. Sitting in an old green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather felt that I was obliged to look after it myself...
...government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon the nation's revenues"- the flood control bill as originally conceived by Congress. This business also saved his party from a veto embarrassment that might well have been disastrous...