Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...independence-talk is manufactured by the big caciques (political and industrial bosses) who want to dispose of the public domain at a fat profit to themselves. Their insincerity is indicated by their naive assumption that independence will be accompanied by some sort of "mandate" or "guarantee" under which the U. S. will protect them. What is there in this...
...Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
...directions around Kahuku, the ether waves flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...will be well here to descend from objectivity and point out from this brief outline some of the commoner illusions about Oxford current among us. Many Oxford tutors do set up final examinations as a goal in themselves. Their pupils are not left in a sort of philosophic anarchy until the final examinations. They are kept to the line by the "collections" set by the colleges, and their work in each honour school is rigorously prescribed even to the "set" books. Grades are not known, for the tutors mark their dress rehearsal examination in a complicated way--Alpha, Alpha Beta...
...undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare and precious sort...