Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Applicants may receive their tickets by applying in person at 4 University Hall between 9 and 1 o'clock, or between 2 and 5 o'clock on June...
...this place comes Hans Pastoy on a visit of three weeks to his cousin Joachim, who has been a patient for some months. Pastoy is a very ordinary person, a member of an ancient Hamburg family of merchants, himself about to enter the ship-building industry. His cousin had been in training for an army career. Both careers promise to be very dull...
...shining. King George, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales sat in a box. Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl...
...down some lines in a notebook, 'I am the poet of slaves and of the masters of slaves. I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul.' That was the beginning of the Leaves . . . Leaves of Grass is more of a person than a book...
Some thoughtful person once declared that "the pen is mightier than the sword" and thus opened up a question which has been the subject of debate for many, many-years. Of course the phrase was used in a general sense, implying that the written word has more power and influence than have the implements of war. But it is interesting to note the fact that the statement taken literally is at present well night out of date...