Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, there would be some danger of the course becoming a superficial though civilizing holiday in the realm of the newer classics. It would be wise, on this account, to limit such a course to concentrators in English and a small quota from related fields, requiring occasional written critiques from the students. In this way a thorough and permanent course could be organized to combine the features of the now defunct course on English Critics and Critical Technique given by Professor I. A. Richards two years ago, and English 26 which Mr. T. S. Eliot is giving this year...
...there is no reason to be over-optimistic about the extent of the tariff reductions which will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming...
...directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite wrong, but from living with the writings of Henry Adams I carry the impression that the key to much of his life and attitude lies in the sentences I have just quoted. The dream of power was always, until...
...their contribution toward maturity and continuity would be to condone a very questionable practice. University authorities must find some other solution than that of a drastic limitation of the graduate students in the Houses on order to enable the Freshman class to migrate en masse next year to the realm of Georgian facades and Moorish domes...
...Russian-minded was he at the end of the War that he urged Japan's General Staff (of which he later became chief) to attempt to take all Siberia and add it to the Divine Emperor's realm-a tragic, costly and futile four-year expedition...