Word: professedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lapse of over a year, with an issue to be published on Tuesday, April 28. Contrary to the custom of past years, the Gadfly will deal specifically with criticisms of various phases of University life. Poetry, dialogues, and essays, all contribute ideas about University problems, and though the editors profess to inquire what is the matter with the University, an impartial point of view has been observed as far as possible...
...going through a pretty bad time. Prices are high; jobs are few; and taxes are heavy. The country simply can't afford, at such times, experiments with either academic socialism or revolutionary mitigation. The Conservative, Party is no patent medicine vendor. It does not profess to have a remedy for every evil, but it is the only Party which offers you the least hope and knows how to make democracy safe for the world...
...beyond the realm of possibility that the officers of the Harvard Democratic Club have breathed a deep sigh of relief at Mr. Brown's unequivocal refusal. There can be no question but that the Harvard Democratic Club can do its work more effectively without the membership of those who profess to believe with La Follette and Wheeler that government should control industry, that railroad rates can be materially decreased while wages are increased, and that the Supreme Court is an institution with which politicians may freely tamper...
...believe in one communist commonwealth and profess one baptism, that of communism, and the redemption from the sins of capitalism...
...three-act play is laid on Long Island, in an ultra-modern and fashionable home. Upstairs we have the members of, Long Island's elite society, downstairs we have their servants and critics. Anthony Ives and this wife Nancy are giving a house party, the members of which profess to be scandalized upon hearing that Alice Chesterton (Miss Jill Middleton) has been seen in New York with Captain Tereace O'Keefe (Mr. Walter Gilbert), when she was supposed to be spending the night with neighbors, Although the wagging tongues are silenced by a perfectly good explanation of the affair, Alice...