Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world of 1914 bears witness...
...Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee, in the words of the Nation, "finds it well-nigh impossible to make good traditional Republicans out of young persons infected with the heresies of university theorists." The only solution he can offer to this ever-increasing problem, which is presented in the accompanying press clipping, is to lead American youth to citizenship in some new and hitherto undiscovered fashion, entirely independent, of the evils of education...
...best testimonial our colleges and universities have had in a long time comes from the lips of that sterling patriot and spender of special party funds, Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee, who finds it well-nigh impossible to make good traditional Republicans out of young persons infected with the heresies of university theorists. Says the practical Mr. Lucas...
...investigator soon discovers that the prevalent attitudes toward the examination fall into three rather clearly defined classes. Some educators--relatively few, to be sure--would abandon all examinations. They hold that examinations, especially those set and graded by an out-side agency, make it well-nigh impossible for them to do their best teaching...
Gabriel Sash was a stony acorn who planted himself in Kentucky soil in 1769. He was a hunter, and by way of being a desperate character. Living in a settlement drove him nigh crazy, and when he had stood the confinement of married life six months, he lit out for the woods and never came back. But he left behind him the beginnings of the Sash family. His only-son, James, was a mild-tempered man, who spent most of his life fighting the Indians, French, English. After the wars were over, he married a beautiful nun and settled down...