Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGowan also read a Supreme Court decision to the effect that Congress was presumed to know the rules of grammar. This inspired Chairman Sinnott to remark (not for the record) : "We ought to give this Judge a raise in salary...
...same William James, when a student who had filled out a study card with nothing but philosophy once came to him for advice, turned to the young man with the remark, "You mustn't try to philosophize on an empty stomach!" This tradition is still carried on in the Department. The student is urged to combine his philosophy with other things, to go to the sciences, to history, to literature, for concrete material for his philosophical reflections. One can not live on a diet of generalization, but neither can he live by bread alone; and the primary appeal of philosophy...
Mussolini might have gone on to remark that the Bridge of Sighs would still be audible, and that no gasoline fumes would make the lions of Saint Marks sneeze, but the chose instead to draw inspiration from the petition. "As the appeal justly says" (and Mussolini repeats it) "There are some things so holy that no material gain can justify their sacrifice...
...TIME, Feb. 23, HUNGARY), were star guests. So was Charles G. Dawes, of whom a speech was demanded: It was the way I said 'it ["Senate Rules"] not what I said, that gave rise to irritation in Washington. My grief over that irritation is somewhat tempered by a remark of George Bernard Shaw, that no offensive truth is properly presented unless it causes irritation...
...three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden...