Word: skips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that those in power exercise control over education, that they realize their advantage, and that they will naturally refuse to disseminate the truth about themselves. It was slightly stupid of Governor Cross to advocate this hackneyed nostrum before a presumably intelligent audience. It was stupidity itself for him to skip from politics to Shakspere in his abortive attempt to say, in effect, that he did not know whether any good could come out of the old party system, and that if such knowledge were dangerous, he did not choose to know...
President Machado's private gunboat, the S. S. Juan Brunozay, was in Havana Harbor last week with steam up. Sailors were very busy about the deck. The rumor flashed through Havana that Gerardo Machado was about to skip the country. President Machado thereupon broke a silence of many months by inviting U. S. correspondents to the Presidential Palace to hear a statement. His sallow, pocked face broke into a friendly grin as he insisted that he had not the slightest intention of either resigning or running away...
...significant which this year's pudding has revealed is that there is one more feat which defys the art of any Harvard undergraduate. A Harvard man simply does not know how to wear a form-fitting dress. But he can sing, skip rope, and as is most convincingly proved, he can sometimes write music...
...publisher's wife to surrender the husband because she is really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about it all. Serious women are apt to be irritating anyway. Secretly one admires people who are so fearlessly frank, but when one sees them in action, they look silly...
...standard'' and towards "the habits of better middle class speech." The English teachers said that they "believe, of course, in the necessity for emphasizing the correction of unmistakable errors-for which there should now be more time." In other words, in correcting themes and essays they could skip the small frequent errors which children hear at home and will hear all their "better middle class" lives. Some usages now viewed by 6,000 U. S. teachers as permissible: Who are you looking for? Invite whoever you wish. None are expected. Everyone was here but they all went home...