Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone who has ever had more than a passing acquaintance with tractors is unlikely to choose them for pleasure-driving. Supply stations have been established for the first six hundred miles, but after that everything must be carried. Fourteen hundred miles, as the illustrious Governor of North Carolina might remark with justice, is a long way between drinks...
Entemologists will remark a new species of hybrid bug flitting about! It is called the Gad-Fly. It is red all over, but by no means reveals the hereditary black and white of its parental inspirator...
...profession of teaching, an advanced degree has become almost a prerequisite. This passion for the mere letters of a degree is what William James once dubbed the "Ph.D. Octopus". Since his remark was written, a saner view has come into practice, but preference in filling professional positions still goes to the men who can boast of this advanced training...
...editorials, which have failed to scintillate in preceding issues, are excellent criterions of the remainder of the contents, especially the one concerning a recent remark of Heywood Broun that Harvard had traded odists to Yale for touchdowns. Here we have a touch of literary genius. The second editorial is more characteristically flippant, and is a fairly clever bit of satire on Yale secret societies...
...worth-while importations are Russian. From Paris to Boston next week, via New York, comes Cecile Corel. Comedienne in double sense, who declared last year that she would never come to America unless she could have champagne to bathe in, and followed with the enigmatic remark, on reaching New York, that America's air was like champagne. New York has found time to lavish praise upon her: the Boston repertoire, at the Opera House next week, is given elsewhere on this page...