Word: regretable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plump little man, white-bearded, flashing-eyed, set forth his universally known principles and concluded in smashing style: "The sons of France do not fight at the bedside of their sick mother! In the hour of crisis I grouped about me those who had opposed me. I do not regret my choice. Out of our collaboration and thanks to the yielding now of one side and now of the other sprang a new spirit of confidence and all that that made possible. Today the Cabinet of Sacred Union is more united than ever. We have only one regret-that...
Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
...motors roared; Fijians retreated, howling with fear and regret. Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
...present admonition to the members of the class about to complete their undergraduate work. The feeling of unmixed relief that characterizes the divisional-freed Senior, the desire to be up and away as soon as possible, is metamorphosed by the turning of a year or two into an active regret for the cloister's pale, an immediate concern with the functions of the College, its activities, its winning football teams...
Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal