Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gorky in his few pages gives a master ful picture of the man Tolstoy as he saw him and knew him. It is always honest and sincere, a revelation, straight from the heart of the impression left by the overwhelming genius of Tolstoy upon a write and thinker of his own time and country...
...sounding bell of the world." If Tolstoy had let him, Gorky would have worshipped him; as it was he feared, despised, worshipped all at once, but fundamentally he was ever somewhat overawed by the realization that Tolstoy was a genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen him. He was sitting with his head on his hands, the wind blowing the silvery hairs of his beard through his fingers; he was looking into the distance out to sea. . . . In the musing motionless of the old man I felt something fateful, magical, something which...
...Herald" which originally gave the trophy, conveys in an especially caustic editorial, the sentiments held by all lovers of fair play on both sides of the border. The cup was offered for bona-fide fishing vessels only and the races were to be sailed in whatever weather Dame Fortune saw fit to provide at the time scheduled for the race. Special hulls and fair-weather rigging have their place in marine circles, but an offshore run under working conditions, in working hulls, with working rigging, was what the "Herald" wanted and what it got in the races between the Esperanto...
...decided, at its last meeting, that, if any such case should arise in the future, it would fine the offender five dollars, demand that the book be returned (or if it had been lost, then replaced by a new one), and might mote out such further punishment as it saw fit. Such action in these matters, however, treats the undergraduate too much like a small boy. Such provision is all that the Governing Board, can bring forward, and yet the Board, together with those of the student body who have stopped to consider the matter, must realize that the only...
...must remember that out of the fifteen contestants for it the Australasians have won six times, the British five, and American four. Next June we will send a polo team to England to try to win the Hurlingham Trophy again, and our prospects are not the brightest. We recently saw our open golf championship go into English hands. America can claim to lead the world in sport, but any tendency toward boasting is checked by the repeated British demonstrations of ability to score against...