Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unhappy results. The pastures that promised unchecked grazing are reached only by wriggling through too many fences. Professors who complain that they can not cover their subjects adequately in the shortened semester are further limited by necessary but irrelevant attention to mechanical detail. The November hours belie their name with a premature October appearance that is particularly unwelcome to Seniors who have taken divisional a week or two before. And the student who is taking more than one of these courses must forego any hope of systematic digestion, to move in jumps in a depressing game of scholastic parchesi...
...name of the author of this letter, who is himself a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, is withheld by request...
...Western R. R. (G. B. & W., unjustly parodied: "Grab Bag & Walk") issued Debenture B bonds which rank after the company's common stock. Authorized common stock of the Canadian National R. R. Co. totals $180,424,327.70. It is represented by one certificate, made out in the name of His Majesty, George V of England...
Thus wrote Rewrite Man Edgar Allen Poe in the Birmingham Age-Herald last week. His name, startling, aroused no curiosity in habitual readers of the Age-Herald who know that Newsman Poe spells his middle name with an "e" where Poet Poe spelled it with an "a," and that Newsman Poe is no relative of Poet...
...shrewd enough in pursuit of romantic adventures, and shrewder yet in making them appear less romantic than brave. Not shrewd enough however to deceive Penelope with his tale of trying for ten years to get home. "Trying, my dear man! Who kept you back?"-"Fate."-"What was her other name...