Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...column, which appears in a well-known Boston newspaper, the "Bright Sayings of Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books...
...Farge's constructive suggestion of a cultural course, Mr. Murdock seems to feel a slight resentment--"The great point is not whether this article makes a good case or not, but that it should be written at all". Perhaps I misinterpret 'this remark--certainly it sounds rather extraordinary to me. Then he puts quotations around the word "Cultural". I trust I am wrong in thinking that they indicate a peculiar tone of voice...
This somewhat guarded remark of a thinking officer points out a condition, often overlooked by the editor of the local journal enthusiastic over the "native sons training at Camp X--". The C. M. T. C. training, valuable in itself, can only hope to develop men well versed in the fundamentals of elementary drill and physical development,--in a month nothing more is possible. Congressmen, who, having voted for a diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves...
...Wells, historian himself by avocation, in bewailing the absence of glamour from modern times, is quoted as commenting recently; "there is not more history, nothing but line typed records and political economy!" The point raised by this somewhat cryptic remark is one which has divided present-day historians into two camps as widely divergent as the Big Endiaus and Little Endiaus of Lilliput. Certainly there has never been a time when the raw flux of history and romance has poured out as plentifully as today. The question is one of treatment...
...view that make up their individual outlook on life. His recent address to the students of St. Andrews Universtiy is loaded with his particular brand of whimay; it is loaded also with the most cheerful advice, and words of encouragement that students will be tempted to heed. Such a remark as this is something that only a youthful-minded man could make: "My own theme is Courage, as you should use it in the great fight that seems to me to be coming between Youth and their Betters; by Youth meaning of course you, and by your Betters...