Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: An interesting tale came to me the other day and, though it came from a credible source, I am passing it on to you for verification - with the thought in mind that, if true, it might be equally interesting to you. The story goes around through our northern Scandinavian country that the real name of our great bandmaster, John Philip Sousa, is Swen Olsen. It was his custom, in traveling about the world, to mark his luggage with his initials, S. O. followed on the same line with U. S. A., for United States of America. From this evolved...
Insomnia. "The sick and nervous are slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle...
OBSCENE: Filthy, foul, disgusting, offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something that delicacy, purity and decency forbid to be exposed; to be impure, indecent, unchaste, lewd...
...said to be a killjoy, and inhuman; a very Stiggins whose mind is straitened...
...most impressive benefits which the School will derive from the gift of the Sterling Trustees is that all funds hereafter raised for the Law School can be devoted to developing the human and intellectual undertakings we have in mind; adding to the faculty, enriching the library, promoting research and publication, supporting the loan and fellowship funds and improving the quality rather than the quantity of education. In this direction the School has already gone very far. In voting to reduce student numbers next fall and in introducing Honors Courses this year, the Faculty announced its determination to restrict its efforts...