Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following paragraph by James E. Bagley, in a recent CRIMSON, I wish to take exception...
...there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation in this particular case. The book is, in other words, a fireside book like all good collections of essays. One listens to the author, smokes a meditative pipe over an especially fine paragraph, laughs at a surprisingly pat application of a familliar experience, and is ready to say at the end in Dr. Johnson's words, "Sir, we had good talk." Dr. Crofters may have held the floor all evening as Johnson did, but in this instance nobody has been tossed and gored...
...forth in Mr. Buell's account of the Harvard Reconstruction Unit. Mr. Colby's crisp and entertaining essay on "Barbers and Barbarisms" reveals a practiced hand. What seems to the reviewer a sound presentation of Russian affairs is given by Mr. Holbrook although the facts in the opening paragraph might have been brought more closely up to date...
...play a minor part, that nationalization is the fundamental question, and that Great Britain a opposed to it. I grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method of unification by national purchase and, or, by joint control...
...most characteristic expression is the line down the side of a passage. Next comes "What does he mean?" in connection with a paragraph of such simplicity that one-tenth the reasoning power of a negro prizefighter could fathom...