Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the boy has entered and selected his courses there comes the all-important question what to "go in for." Practically every boarding school boy finds for himself some special interest, either athletics, a managerial job, or a position on a college publication. All this sort of thing is excellent in its place, but isn't it stressed too much...
...school has charge of the boys during their formative years, that they directly control their conduct and influence their character. As far as leadership, physical condition, and moral standards are concerned, they certainly succeed in developing fine boys, but when it comes to preparing their students for any sort of intellectual broadening or creating in them a real desire for knowledge, it is not to be denied that they are falling far short of the mark...
Captain Blood. Sabatini, it seems, is God's gift to the silent drama. He is a glutton for Romance, leading the present field of doublet-and-hose designers by several hundred thousand copies. He is so good at this sort of thing that his yarns must inevitably make sturdy cinema matter. Captain Blood is another pirate argosy. A young Irish physician embroils himself with King James and is sold into slavery to a West Indian planter. While pirates are looting the town, he leads a sortie of slaves, out-pirates the pirates, and sails away to become a buccaneer...
...other wild animals. Within these bounds not only the fauna but also the flora will be left undisturbed. Provision has been made for a sufficient number of wardens to prevent the intrusion of hunters and to prevent the destruction of plants or trees. The sanctuary will be a sort of Garden of Eden where the animals may live in peace, amid their natural surroundings, without fear of man. This reserve lies in the northeastern part of the Belgian Congo between Lake Kivu and Uganda. It embraces the three volcanoes of Mount Mikeno, Mount Karissimbi (altitude 13,500 feet) and Mount...
...most usual lair of embryo plots of the sort which Mr. Brown and the Traveler hunt seems to be the police station. A volley of shots, a crash of glass, a succession of piercing shrieks,--and a complete detective story has clicked itself off on the Corona. Simple, what...