Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somehow, there is an awkwardness about Mr. Wescott's style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...cursory glance at this book would lead one to believe that it is another survey by three persons whose qualifications for that survey may be indifferent. But it is not just another survey in this sense of the term, and therein lies its value. The data presented was gathered under the direction of The Institute of Social and Religious Research, which determined to go to the heart of the problem, and sound the sentiment of the mass of undergraduates. The book does not present the opinions of the investigators based upon examination of colleges, but what undergraduates who have...
Perhaps, as he lies under invigorating Swedish digits of a morning, Mr. Chief Justice reflects, or talks, about past and present-perhaps somewhat as follows...
...intend to vote for Mr. Hoover, although I disagree with his views about Prohibition. I think the country will come to a more intelligent way of dealing with that subject than is contained in the present laws, but that will probably be a slow process, and in the meantime the hard task of carrying on our free government with all its many difficulties and dangers must be performed by us. We need the very best man possible to be the head of that business...
...specific answer to all these rhetorical questions Signor Mussolini suggested with more vigor than delicacy that Italian husbands should prove themselves men several million times a year more often than at present. Concluded he: "In disciplined, enriched, cultivated Italy there is room for 10,000,000 more men. Sixty million Italians would make their weight felt in the history of the world...