Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Freshman, some day you may have to be an advisor too; so spare your criticism now. Some day you may discover that the Proctors are as human as you are; so get to know them soon. Some day you may discover that there is no sure road to success and satisfaction at Harvard, that the University does not demand conformity in dress or habits or speech, that you are free within the bounds of law and decency to say and do as you wish, and that you are, to repeat a truism, in a world in little; so cherish your...
...Paints in All His Spare Time...
...essential things about Dos Passos are his zest for color and his craving for motion. He paints in all his spare time. His books are filled with passages of glowing description. He feels everything, it seems, in terms of color?a sensualist, yes? Latin in spirit...
...born in Newton, of pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps...
...representing the Entente, the power of Government was seized by the proletariat, and Karolyi resigned the Presidency of the Republic. "I preferred this sacrifice to assuming the cheap martyrdom of letting them arrest me, because I wanted to avoid bloodshed and mass murder in the streets of Budapest, to spare the country from the worst horrors of civil war"* Nevertheless much blood was spilled. It is significant that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book on the revolution. Karolyi fled to Gablonz in Czecho-Slovakia after...