Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated Governor Moody's denial of any "don't shoot" telegram, a denial substantiated by a search of telegraph company files. TIME was accurate also in reporting Capt. Hamer's remark upon hearing the false rumor: "That means they'll get the Negro"-which they...
...Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that Col. Lindbergh had looked at him and said: "I wish I had a kid like that." To observers of the tabloid press it was instructive to behold that, on the strength of this apocryphal remark, the yearning Daily News editor had inserted a picture of Col. Lindbergh's wife (unmentioned in the story) and headlined: LINDY WANTS...
Without attempting to discuss the details of the curriculum study to which I have referred, I will only remark that we have first considered a six-year secondary curriculum sub-divided into two period characterized by somewhat different trends. The first three years are exploratory. The pupil is brought into touch with all the major fields of learning; but his attention is not confined to the acquisition of facts and disciplines to the neglect of the appreciative side of his personality. During the later years there is a gradual change of emphasis. The pupil has been led to try himself...
...would be as graphic a commentary on you college life as the notes and names you have jotted on the margins and covers of these books." To what other books have you granted such intimacy of thought" Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania follows this thought with his remark. "I know of no book that can be more properly valued as an 'association book' than the textbook which represents many hours of work and brings to mind some teacher of the past." The Bates Student
...doubt as to what is happening in my own home, I need only turn to the gossip in The Daily Wonder to find all the information I need. It may be the latest remark or action of my daughter? though probably unknown to myself?or the fact that we have changed the decoration of our London house some ten or twelve times since we first occupied it three years...