Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people we dislike and people we don't know, asserting that too many of our prejudices against those about us are due to ignorance of their character. "It is normal to like people", he said, "and if we conceive an instinctive prejudice against every stranger it is a sure sigh of an abnormal or diseased mentality...
...distrust poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank God for Robert Browning", and make a place on the bottom shelf or your bookcase, reflecting that here are those "songs of modern speech" which Andrew Lang weant when he wrote of the Odyssey...
Guila's mission ended, she brings her visit to a close; while the youth of the village find new joy in the spirit she has awakened within them and the outraged savants with a sigh of relief return to their pondering...
...restaurant will open with dinner in the evening. From new until Wednesday, October 6, all members of the University will be entitled to the privileges of the club. After that only those who have signed up for membership will be allowed to use the building. Men may now sigh applications for membership by applying at the Union; members cards will be mailed by October...
...hastily patched up without any provisions to avoid future difficulties of the same sort. The public is temporarily shocked, some one produces a makeshift never based on a scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...