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...would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing and cooking. ... He stayed out late mighty nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...which are not his own. Borrowed or purchased notes are regarded as a perfectly legitimate aid, not to night-before cramming, but to methodical review. The only reason why more men do not use tutoring bureau outlines is that they are so inadequate and inaccurate as to be well-nigh useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHENTIC LECTURE NOTES | 12/13/1933 | See Source »

Astronomy is a science that trains the imagination and stretches one's powers of conception to the breaking point. The exactitude of measurement achieved in some parts of the field is well nigh incredible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/14/1933 | See Source »

...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/23/1933 | See Source »

...Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's 72-in. at Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers in a Wood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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