Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing. The final competition, which will be judged on June 29, consists in the completion and elaboration of the preliminary plan, and the submission of drawings and specifications for carrying out the proposed development. The contestants are required to work in private, receiving no advice or criticism of any sort...
...other hand the thickening craffic has given many ingenious little fellows a new game, that of spotting the makes of automobiles at great distances. Of late years however the imitative impulse on the part of the nation's body designers has reduced the sport to the most minute sort of scholasticism, and painstaking detail work is necessary in order to tell the newer makes apart at a thousand yards...
Admittedly a library is a place for the collection of the intellectual achievements of all races and all times. Admitted also is the fact that intense war patriotism and the sort of feelings inspired against an enemy, call them hatred or not as you will, are not only local but are remembered for a relatively short period. Anything which helps to maintain such feelings beyond the time that they are needed for the preservation of unity and national health may rightly be considered to jeopardize the cause of permanent peace. And indeed there would seem to be some ground...
...murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance, manners, or artificial social orders create...
...There is a strong feeling in America that it is not good to be a superior person. The idea seems to set a general level, a sort of happy-go-lucky mediocrity. You should raise your heads above...