Word: se
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stocky Guardsman O'Sullivan, now 30, seemed satisfied with the translation. "Here is the egg of a sea-bird," writes Author E. M. Forster in a preface, "lovely, perfect, and laid this very morning." Twenty Years A-Growing is the Book-of-the-Month Club's August se lection...
...thyroid received little attention at last fortnight's meetings, apparently because its physiology is broadly understood and because the number of goitre cases in the country is shrinking (TIME. May 29). Nor did the sex glands per se come up for much discussion. The pituitary predominated over...
...takes her to his native village, beats her, lets her go back to Cairo to marry her Britisher, abducts her once more just before the ceremony. For cinemaddicts of the current crop-who may be less ready than their predecessors to believe that sheiks are irresistible per se -Authors Edgar Selwyn & Anita Loos contributed a new mite to the formula: the heroine explains Jamil's fascination for her by telling him that her mother was an Egyptian...
...lectures in Botany 2 "make" the course. Professor Weston is a person with that rare gift of being able to make the driest portions of a subject sparkle with interest. Not that the subject matter is uninteresting per se, but Professor Weston's wide experience and boundless enthusiasm do much to make the material especially presentable, even to the most mediocre student...
Miss Bentley has obviously undertaken a discouraging task. For if her book is to remain, properly speaking, a novel, her characters must secure, per se, the interest and affection of the reader. They must not, as in so many works of this type, become submerged either in her sympathy for the oppressed, or by the difficulty of finding something interesting, something new for each succeeding generation...