Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappointed at the small squad out this afternoon, but with pleasant weather or not tomorrow I expect many new men to report here at the field. We must have double the number of men out in order to develop a winning team...
...director of the Associated Press said recently, "I got two things out of Harvard, first, certain associations that have since been both profitable and pleasant; and second, mental discipline." Why should this man, practiced in the use of words, have said mental discipline rather than knowledge, or learning, or some other such term...
...landscape design. The competitors were furnished with topographic maps of a given piece of property in a region of country estates which a landscape architect was supposed to have purchased for his own residence and for his office. The plans submitted were to include a small formal garden, pleasant informal treatment of the rest of the grounds, for convenience in use, a recreation ground for employees, and examples of interesting landscape compositions, in general pleasantly to impress visiting clients...
...notable collection of vermin at Deer Island is a surpassingly delightful spectacle, both to the eye and to the mind. It is pleasant to know that this mass of scum no longer infects our social and political institutions with its deadly poison. No doubt there is considerable "wailing and gnashing of teeth," among these apostles of chaos as they turn their eyes westward to behold for the last time their "Paradise Lost," but it is not far wrong to say that the greater their anguish the greater the pleasure to all real Americans. They have made their bed; let them...
...pleasant also to leave for a moment the war ravaged cities and fields of Belgium and to come to this land which has been so fortunate as to escape the destruction which the Germans have wrought every where in Europe. Although the work of reconstruction has started, it must of necessity progress slowly and it will be many years before we in Belgium can live as freely and happily as it is possible for you to do in America...