Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...see, Tommy, all great men are modest. Tell papa that Ethel really did most of your arithmetic. There's the good modest...
...country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs and toad's blood which she had religiously stirred through the night in accordance with instructions left by her great-great-grandmother, who was said to be a wonderful herbalist...
...designate a considerable plot of land around the Vatican and extending southward down the River Tiber as "The Papal State"; 2) An indemnity of one billion lire ($52,631,600) will be paid by the Italian Treasury to the Papal State, in compensation for lands seized from the Holy See in 1870. It was learned, last week, that Pope Pius originally wanted four billion lire. Concerning the limits of the new State, the Holy Office intimated that it would encompass not only the environs of the Vatican but the sumptuous Roman Palazzo Doria-Pamphili-a storehouse of priceless art treasures...
Both the University and Freshman polo teams will see action this evening in the fourth round of the Commonwealth Polo Club Tournament to be played in the Commonwealth armory at 8.15 o'clock. The University trio will meet the 101st Field Artillery in the Senior division game, while the 1932 team will play the Cavalry Cossacks...
...said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...