Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prentice. But waiving this point, it is probable that nobody felt the effect of the turning except in a fresher sensation when he waked. Another unnoticed effect there was also. The quitting of Daylight Saving Time has put a period to the summer. No longer can one pretend merrily that 12 o'clock is mid-day nor gain spiritual merit by getting up in the wee sma' hours of the morning along with the rest of Nature's early birds...
None of these actions is at all decisive. Those who pretend to be "on the inside" assert that the miners and operators have no intention of suspending work. The threat of an anthracite boycott is significant only because it indicates desperation in New England (which constitutes a large part of the anthracite-using public). If New Englanders can give up their predilection for hard coal, their furnaces cannot. The expense and trouble of changing a large number of private furnaces to burn soft coal efficiently would materially injure the effectiveness of a boycott. As for the call of the Coal...
...skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither Kipling nor Conrad, In Dark Places is nevertheless a first-class book of adventurous short stories-and it would be only carping to criticize it for not being the masterpiece it does not pretend...
...plot concerns a band of crooks who pretend to be Hindu mystics to swindle Vivienne Segal out of her jewels?which gives opportunity for one gorgeous stage-set and a lot of music full of temple-bells and incense-smells and the rest of the allure of the East as known to a Broadway orchestra...
...true that the best way to solve difficulties created by the animosities of groups and classes is to let them alone. But it cannot be true that the best way to think about them is to pretend that they don't exist...