Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite the unkindest paragraph of the year is credited to Frederick Donaghey...
...country of the problem which they must meet sometime and probably in the not very distant future. It is distinctly an event to read in the annual report of the head of one of the greatest of American universities, and one famous for its athletic achievements, such a paragraph as this...
...easy to sum up Platonism in a paragraph," he stated, "but I think we may say that it is the determination to look beyond the things of sense in this perplexing world of change, of becoming, and of decay, with the conviction that behind it all there are abiding realities of youth, beauty, and goodness which the soul may grasp when it realizes its heavenly origin. It is the soul which is alive, not the body. It lives in the world of the ideas. These are more potent than acts. As Marcus Aurelius puts it, The universe is change...
...accuracy of his conception were folly; but for the writer at any rate, it is the most convincing portrait of Christ that has come into his hands. And that because it seems to be more true than most. The author's method is clearly outlined in the first paragraph of his foreword: "Beginning and keeping on uninterruptedly to the very end, I have been reading a heretical book. It upsets theologies. It demolishes creeds. It sweeps away traditions with a recklessness altogether amazing. It is called the Bible...
...Plan demands more than a knowledge of facts; there is included in it a psychological test and a very satisfactory cultural examination. Upon the last examination the candidate was asked to condense a long paragraph into a few sentences, and questions appeared which would also test his general reading knowledge of literature. Upon the history examination was a question calling both for some knowledge of the past history of Europe, but also enabling the candidate to show what reading he had done upon very recent history. This sort of question is a good criterion of the general mental equipment...