Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea that the League is the instrument of peace on the basis of international justice has been sold to the common people the world over. The League is nothing of the sort. It recognizes the sovereignty of existing governments within their political and geographical domains and is therefore in no way a help to those nations which hope for liberty through justice. Some time it may be necessary for a League of Exploited Peoples to come into existence...
Discussion about education inevitably comes back to the educator. Not all the problems of the modern university, to be sure, but a great many of them, would be solved if only the magic formula for producing great teachers could be discovered. Comment of this sort, at all times prolific, has recently taken a more than usually practical turn in a burst of critical examination of the University's graduate school from which come many of the country's and not a few of Harvard's own prominent educators...
...Bigelow's book] I am represented as a large traveling salesman sort of person pervading in Lady Russell's party with violent boastfulness about purely imaginary royalties that so galled Bigelow - that is, the sort of person he wanted me to be, and that's the sort of person he means me to be if lying can do it-and when the remarks about the Charing Cross bridge come in they are very generously ascribed to Anthony Hope, who is quite incapable of such stupidities...
...Until the recording tape had been taken out yesterday morning," said Professor Mather, "we were not quite sure whether the shock was an explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...pretentious course such as Mr. Babson suggests, designed to stimulate and develop those particular qualities which experience has demonstrated to be desirable might prove far more valuable. In addition to that more special type of education which the Business School now offers--but with broader appeal, institutions of this sort might relieve the present pressure on the colleges--to the very great advantage of both...