Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made too heavy to permit the honest performance of the required task. Two weeks and a half might profitably be spent in milling over the courses, in pulling them together, in completing the terminal essays--to say nothing of the tutorial assignments for the period. In order to make the transition gradual, however, strict course assignments are no doubt necessary...
...Manhattan, Senator Borah said: ". . . It is clear that both political parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...
Came the army to Windsor, but King George was not in his castle, neither was Queen Mary. But the stately royal pile, begun by William the Conqueror, held them spellbound as they paused to gaze at it. And even after the order to march had been given necks were craned to take just one last look...
...Disapproving this restrictive distinction, he recently closed his Berlin and Vienna theatres, and bundled actors, scenery, costumes, to Manhattan to show his skill at smaller things. His first production was far from small, but it was delicate and true. Perhaps he started on a spacious scale in order to ease great expectations gradually down to subtler things...
...these Harvard clubs are comparable to nothing. Not in New Haven, for example, could occur a royster such as that staged at the Hoosic-Whisick Club by the Dolphins, and order so secret, we are told, that the very members themselves do not know the members names. Out of pure gratitude be it said that all Yale was there in a body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian...