Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...
...long sea voyage the captain's log becomes a peculiarly fascinating document. The passengers themselves have lived through the days and nights so carefully recorded, but almost without comprehending the ship's progress; and a terse statement in black and white makes each hour's accomplishment more real. It is with just such a reaction that members of the University read President Lowell's annual report...
...Department's Statement...
Major Moore was skeptical about the announcement of Daly's transfer. He made no statement as to what Daly's position as to the football coaching staff would be if he did come to Cambridge. But that the Athletic Association has expressed some desire for Daly's presence in Cambridge can scarcely be denied after reading the War Department's statement as told by the Associated Press: "Secretary Weeks was asked by the Harvard Athletic Committee to detail Major Daly as assistant to the professor of military science at Harvard but found it impossible to grant the request...
...training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every new-born babe starts life with an equal endowment of nothing...