Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard team ever made a more stubborn fight than this one. . . . The driving force of the Yale team required Harvard resistance of the stiffest sort. Not once did Harvard waver in the pinches."--R. T. Fisher...
Besides his contributions and editing of periodicals, Friday night's speaker at the Union has proved a prolific author of books. His special fields are sociology, economics, a practical sort of religion or morals. His works number well over 20, and are generally considered authoritative in the phases with which the author deals...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...
Three more extras of this sort, and a, daily column of "Telegraphic Brevities" which were brought out on a horse-car in the early hours of the morning from the Boston Herald office and which put the news of the world in the hands of the students via the Harvard Daily Herald, gave the latter sheet much prestige. However, it ran for only a year and a half under its original name, for in October, 1883, it consolidated with the CRIMSON under the title of Herald-Crimson. A year later the name became Daily Crimson, remaining so until 1891, when...
...continuation of solicitous supervision in a kind of adult nursery, where the young person will still be under espionage; a sort of "glorified prep-school...