Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Great Britain's National Debt (internal and external) now amounts to the stupendous total of ?7,527,000,000 ($36,581,220,000), Chancellor Churchill declared stoutly: "We need only to go on paying the same sort of sums as we are now paying steadily and punctually and our national debt will be extinguished within the lifetime of some of us now living...
...course there are lots of plain fellows like me who've got the idea that Harvard is a dignified and aristocratic sort of joint and that Harvard men are different from the rest of the world...
...rays are taken to determine the bone development in each child. The wrist bone is particularly important in this connection because it is a sort of indicator of the whole development. These individual physical examinations are fairly complete, but so far we have been unable to give individual mental tests to more than four or five hundred students a year...
...pass from jeune fille to grande dame. Doubtless she would find New Orleans, where gallantry is understood, more enchanting than Washington, where flattery keeps its net mended to capture the mayflies of gossip so important to political life. She would share with him the warm friendliness of a sort of homecoming, but in not quite the same blissful passivity as he, Paul Claudel, poet...
...contrasting the three universities instinct impels one to speak of Harvard first. Harvard men may be said to represent an ideal which the rest of the country looks forward to achieving after several centuries of intensive culture. The Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far in advance of the main body, he has time to contemplate the masses with sympathy and compassion. While he is tolerant of others, he scarcely expects others to understand him. He enjoys an independence of action bred of conscious superiority...