Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert is something of a disappointment as the young engineer who, quite without seeking it, wins the heart of the girl. He is good enough, but we have seen him much better. He makes the engineer rather a disagreeable sort of person and we find it hard to believe that Ann really loves...
...buildings and equipment of American institutions and their machinery, of learning. "When a Frenchman comes to this country, he is over whiningly impressed by the splendid buildings of your universities. Even your high school buildings are often superior to anything we have. The French teacher accustomed to sort of laissez-faire and casy-going ways, notices quickly her that your machinery works with a perforation that he has never known nor imagined. But he cannot escape the impression that the machine itself sometimes assumes an importance somewhat too great and that something of the automatic and of the mechanical enters...
...past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds way see a little farther into the future, which is at present concealed in a thunderstorms July haze...
...J.A.C. Chandler, President of William and Mary College, who had introduced the resolutions, suggested that the third year of the course could be devoted to a sort of Grand Tour for Fledgling Diplomats...
...discharged soldiers, especially around Loyang. In the western provinces, the bandits are no less numerous, but here they are Mohammedans who are called Chanto, or turban-people, by the Chinese. Any one of these would stick you in the back for 20 cents, but they are a rough, genial sort, and are a problem to the Chinese in Kansu. Around the Yellow River and Huang Ho, Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.PRIZE...