Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Wright wrote: "Mr. Gladstone . . . founded the great tradition, since observed by so many of his followers and successors with such pious fidelity : in pub lic to speak the language of the highest and strictest principles and in private to pursue and possess every sort of woman...
...railroad were built-will never be used again. Numbers. Princes, ambassadors, nobles, and army and navy officers to the number of 12,000 participated in the funeral, while two million commoners looked on. Pageant. At 4 p. m. the streets of Tokyo were closed to traffic of any sort. At 6 p. m. the present Emperor, Hirohito, the Dowager Empress and the three brothers of the Emperor, emerged from the Imperial Palace in their red and gold motors. All electricity was shut off, and in the gathering dusk thousands of lanterns winked and iron braziers flared along the funeral...
...called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort of thing always lies in its too-theoretical use. The ending of the old entrance "conditions" simply means that the University is now considering its Freshman applicants on a broader basis than the often accidental "marks" a boy may get on his entrance papers. School records tell more that final...
There is probably no more bitter intellectual conflict than that between classicism and romanticism; and it is one which--as is the case with most problems of the sort--will never be entirely settled. Each side has its extreme proponents, but whereas an extremity of classicism draws in, so to speak, upon itself, romanticism flays in a hundred different ways into infinity and approaches insanity...
...Cambridge." In support of this his final words were, "Mayor Quinn came to see me the last time I was up here: so he must be out of town just now or I'm sure he would have come right in to see me this time. I guess that sort of gives me the freedom of your city, all right...