Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps I am not one to criticize-being merely a 16-year-old Andover student, but even my young mind can see utter folly, and endeavor to help. I read TIME consistently, both while at home and at school...
There is an old adage, that comes to my mind, which was taught me, while still very young: "He, who knows not, and knows that he knows not is simple; teach him. He, who knows not. and knows not that he knows not is a fool; avoid...
...this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense of rebuff, Mme. Jacquet said sturdily: "To my mind, God willing, it should be my duty to follow the regiment in war as well as peace...
...interested, in any combat where the element of personal contact is lacking. It will go to football games and hockey games because it loves to be present when body hits body with a resounding thud. Some of it will go to debates because there it can watch mind meet mind and see the intellectual sparksfly. But any contest, where the contestants are far apart, leaves it cold. It takes such an affair about as seriously as it would take a duel with swords at fifty paces or with revolvers at two miles. There has been publicity attached to the meet...
...almost certainly, is Author Powell; and it is very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture of youth more brightly than its touch. The book is as interesting as a secret; it is too bad that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like...