Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator George Higgins ("Red Hot Stuff") Moses of New Hampshire, brisk, sanguine, ironic, emphatic, is the Senate's President Pro Tern., i.e., first deputy when the Vice President leaves his rostrum for a snooze, stroll or conference. Senator Moses was Hooverizer of the East, another reason why he "rates" the position. Seemingly, only one thing could keep Senator Moses from being elected second-most-important man in the Senate chamber. That thing would be the same thing- whatever it was-for which Senator Moses was restrained from being his really dominant self in the Hoover campaign. The only imaginable...
...will enter the lists, and boldly pick Yale, though there is every reason why Princeton should win. This is a great test of my power. If I win, there will be considerable justification in the word that is going the rounds that Joe Forecast's support is worth more than a good backfield. And here are the scores...
...that "Freshmen do not seem to be irked by that much compulsion at present." An inquiry as to how many undergraduates would like to continue under Freshman dormitory rooming and eating regulations throughout their college careers might throw valuable light on Mr. Holmes' contention here. But there is no reason, according to Mr. Holmes' statement why a student, once his House has been chosen, "will have no chance whatever to get into another House." It is certainly not difficult to perceive that any appreciable latitude in opportunity to shift Houses will soon lead to a general grouping on interest...
...always seemed to us too artificial, too impressed with the sense of their own originality and wickedness. But Mr. Huxley, while he has enough originality and enough wickedness, makes his characters at once human or ridiculous, or both, much more than Michael Arlen or some others, and for that reason he will generally be one of our enthusiasms...
Wilson-"intellectually entirely democratic . . . unfortunate, for the reason that his mind led him where his taste rebelled...