Word: milks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstacle from the road leading to Divisionals. So many courses are given at the University at present that the prescribed seventeen, limited by the requirements of Concentration and Distribution, leave the prospective graduate with a feeling that somehow or other he is not getting even the cream off the milk. A half course for sub-freshmen on "What to Take in Harvard" might develop a man capable of choosing the most interesting, broadening and thoroughly satisfactory courses given in Cambridge; but, failing that, the great majority of undergraduates at the end of four years look back to an academic career...
...American merchant marine, and that so long as foreign ships are allowed the privilege of entering and departing from American ports serving liquor that same privilege must be allowed our merchant ships." Apparently infant Industries, like babies, are better bottle-fed, but the nutrient medium need not be milk...
...Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe the Lowes and fishes...
...novel suggestion to remedy them by abolishing the system altogether. It is at least conceivable that employes guaranteed their situations by politicians would loaf on the job fully as much as those who have earned those positions by examinations. Before shooting the cow because it gives no more milk it might be just as well to see if there is no less drastic remedy, and if the ailment is wholly the creature's fault anyway...
...Rearrested the same year, he was released on bail. Thus he has been twice stimulated to go on with his virtue. Parole, suspended sentence, probation, bail, easy discharge, all the bounties, so to speak, for the commission of crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this quick-forgetting community still remembers Hoey, the paroled convict from Sing Sing out on bail, who murdered Patrolman Neville. Possibly it will remember...