Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vagabonds will remind few readers of Author Hamsun's earlier books; its people are neither monumental peasant types nor furious eccentrics, but ordinary voting citizens. Hamsun's 71-year-old creative energy is burning with a low blue flame...
...Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy, but, by God, they frighten...
Point cadet. Three small pencil portraits in battered gilt frames arrived in New York last week to remind people that Edgar Allan Poe was also an artist and a draughtsman...
Pacemaker Henderson. "We who are gathered here are custodians of the Peace of the World," preached Uncle Arthur solemnly. "Need I remind this great assembly that two years have gone by since we resolved that, due to the Locarno agreements, it had become possible to hold a Disarmament Conference. We have not as yet assembled that great convention. Our pace is slow and the peoples of the world are growing impatient, doubtful of our good faith...
...degrees of ability enrolled in it, and (2) that it deals with subjects which are far from satisfactorily solved and which are difficult even for advanced students of economics. Corrolary: Economics 3 is conducted in a very slow and deliberate fashion; it tends toward oversimplification; and the lectures remind one of one's preparatory school days in their careful topical organization and their constant repetition...