Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their inmost minds the Americans expected the British to oppose a desperate resistance and stick to their 21/2% proposal. To their renewed astonishment, the British did not. They rather quickly assented to 3 1/2%. And that is how today the rate of 2 1/2% has become a sort of sacred rate to be" imposed on all foreign debtors...
...students who go to sit at Mother Oxford's ancient knee frequently find themselves embarrassed by lack of the right sort, and extent, of preparation. The same applies to U.S. students entering other English universities, to many entering U. S. institutions. These facts, and the fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American...
...champion had not had occasion to deal with that chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since...
...University and the backbone of its moderately high level of instruction. There is a bewildering mass of miscellaneous facts to be mastered which from their very nature can not be too systematically coordinated. The course will provoke enthusiasm from those few who have a decided bent for this sort of thing and from the rest the semi-boredom with which the majority of students always regard a course so conducted as to demand much memorizing at the expense of creative thought...
Mayor Curley has become adept in this sort of thing. An official ukase--and the deed was done! It was quite simple. Probably few men in the whole world could have done it so quickly and so easily...