Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original intent of the Sunday morning closure was doubtless in behalf of religious services; but it is hardly probable that the church attendance of students is much increased by this act. As for the difficulties arising on other days of the week, one might remark that though track, lacrosse, and baseball each has its thousands, tennis has its ten thousands; and that H. A. A. books are not universal. Freshman physical training occupies many of the Soldiers Field courts three days a week throughout May, and the already limited facilities are further diminished. The result is a choice between more...
With reference to the terrifying argument between Sidney Henderson, of Chicago, and Catherine M. Whitsitt, of some point farther east (last referred to in TIME, May 7), permit me to remark that President Roosevelt did make an airplane flight...
...introduced. Doubt is not a helpful factor where a positive result is desired. So doubt is discarded and Mr. Mellon says that, when the Republicans meet at Kansas City, "we will not be merely selecting a candidate but in reality selecting a President." From Andrew William Mellon, that remark sounds more like conviction than bluff or optimism...
...Leader Andrews had been shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...
...been said, and so often and so insistently that it has become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...