Word: outer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capable, honest, clever and energetic as any person I ever met in the world. The only ones who really want her to leave here are a bunch of fellows who know they can't get everything that's loose, while she is out there in the outer office, keeping watch...
...Vagabond's chief aspiration is to suggest. If, by listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...
...from admonition to probation and expulsion. This is not, and never has been, a true picture of the situation at Harvard, nor at any other college worthy of the name. We are rather busy men, and now and then you may have to wait your turn in the outer office, but please remember that we are always glad to see you and that it is our aim to keep the 'college office' a friendly place where you will be welcome at all times, whether it be on a matter of business or for a friendly chat...
...legs bare and browned above mannish socks. She is a sort of Empress to the "primitives" of the surrounding wilderness. They do her lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer her checks to regular currency and seldom cash them, bringing old ones in to be rewritten after perhaps two years of passing from hand to hand...
...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...