Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works on Marie Antoinette and Robespierre, Mr. Belloc has made no changes is the estimates he made of Danton back in his salad days--nor does there seem to be any reason why he should, for his chief charm, his eye for the dramatic and his fine literary style need no refurbishing...
...gifts to the University generaly come with a "Handle Carefully" tag attached to them. Weld Hall may need new plumbing badly; but the generous contributions are all labelled for a new professorial chair, for a rare edition of Shakespeare, for another set of squash courts. These are all worthy projects, and the gifts are received thankfully; still, though man does not live by bread alone, he does need bread; and the plebeian matters of hedge-trimming and board walks require money...
Should it happen, it would be a political thunderclap. Its boldness would be equalled only by the uncertainty of its effect, for it would be wholly unprecedented. Its folly would lie in staking much where nothing needs be staked; in prematurely disappointing many an ambitious man whose attachment Candidate Smith would need until November...
...rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...
...excessive cost, their waste of youth's time, their superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop consecutive thought. Too much attention has been paid to making education attractive by smoothing...