Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...
...perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages of proof given me for review, "Farewell Chorus" by Howard Doughty quite sure in technical command except for a jarring rhyme of "patter" and "Satyr" for which he should be drawn and quartered if not burnt at the stake. Within the form, however, lives much natural beauty that realizes the Pagan life for which young poets cannot help being wistful
...highest honor in the Law School will be at stake this evening when the Scott Club and the Langdell-Marshall Club meet in the finals of the Ames competition. Tonight's case, the climax of a three year competition among the Law School Clubs will be tried before a bench of three justices in the center lecture room of Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock...
...glory of success! I discovered one in this A. M.'s Crimlisten: "The humor of the play, which" play, the critic states "is continuous" a dramatic technicality "is simple (a common quality of naivete--simplicity): it is bound round (as Ridley and Latimer were bound round a stake) the novel and hotherto unused idea of mistaken identity." Is it to laugh. How could you, Mr. Critik? Is it unknown to you that the mistaken identify theme is decidedly not novel? In fact, it is absolutely un-novel except to a native critic. The archives of the library (Coolidge Corner) reveal...
...standing of Harvard, the very meaning of your University, is at stake. In the new generation that is now springing up there are men to whom the ideals, castes, and satisfactions of business are as dust and ashes. These men claim a share in that human inheritance which Harvard once stood for: they seek those foundations of thought that reach down to the centre of life. Yet as they approach you, they find that the ground beneath their feet is in a flux. They come to escape from Pittsburgh and they find Hollywood. What will such men do when they...