Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to scold, but I changed my mind when I received this week's issue. In today's issue of The Boston Traveler I read what is almost a duplicate of your story about Sen. Curtis of Kansas and decided that TIME isn't killing so much of it after all. I'll say TIME is "going some" when it prints its stories ahead of the newspapers...
...people were introduced to him. His oversized hands and heavy feet, his awkward body bulging in its loose shrouds, made him look very much out of place among all those lovers of art. But Sculptor Epstein did not appear disconcerted. Had the history of his career flashed through his mind, he would have recalled how he had left America in 1902, how for three years he had studied in Paris how for 22 years he had lived in London listening to the insensate mouthings of academicians every time he displayed his work. Lately returned to the U. S. after...
...same shiny bald head, the beard that looks as if it had been doused in foamy soapsuds, the same sad mastiff eyes. His nose was shiny and a little bulbous. His speech had a genial and sarcastic tang for the silly staring people who came to see him, his mind retained a vast curiosity and with it inevitably, a courteous and inclusive scepticism, an uncertainty, an almost universal doubt. "He habitually formed so humble an estimate of the value of his works that he was generally surprised at the interest they created...
...away all his instruments, food and signal charts. All the equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind that he admitted jettisoning 300 gallons of fuel, will class him with Cosy Dolan as the first to throw a World Series or a transoceanic flight...
...much joy that he took the afternoon and went to the movies--that Harvard offers no less than 19 courses intimately connected with the Greek language and literature, in fact what the a for ementioned clipping calls courses in Greek. So let the writer thereof recall to his mind the old saying which holds that "qui ambulate in tenebris, nescit quo vadit...