Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second question is of a more profitable sort. It is, what evil will result from this advance of practical education? or was it not folly in the beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge...
Although the new committee is advisory only and although it is in no sense pro-Sacco or pro-Vanzetti, friends of the condemned Italians welcomed its appointment. Felix Frankfurter's study of the Sacco-Vanzetti case* has become a sort of Sacco-Vanzetti Bible, extracts from which have been read from many a soap-box on many a public square...
Speeches numerous and lengthy fell into two classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...
...York Times who thus described last week with sly enthusiasm the notorious Madame Borodin, wife of the Soviet Russian emissary to Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...
...least partially to the youth of the Western colleges, there exists the large-headed, bull-mouthed, cubbish young Western undergraduate whom one does not find in the better sort of Eastern school, such as Williams. Here the restricted college roll produces a more mature student who has a certain amount of intellectual interest, and is not absorbed completely by athletics and girls, as is his Western brother...