Word: sufferance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...College and to the Administrative Board. I trust that at your earliest opportunity you will be good enough to publish this letter from a former editor of your paper and publish it without "certain elisions the sake of brevity." It I could have guessed that my ideas were to suffer a change into something so rich and strange. I should never have written for Liberty at all. Believe me very sorry for a misunderstanding which I was totally incapable of preventing. FREDERICK DEWOLFE PENGREE...
...lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...
...kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight. Something happened and carpenter lost. Therefore if there is to be a villain in the proposed movie and if the villain is to suffer a beating at the hands of the hero. Mr. Tunney Shaw has the right to demand retribution and to stipulate that no other than Dempsey shall be the recipient of Mr. Tunney flats Even a Shawan is human...
...airships that have been constructed during the last few years could not conceivably suffer the fate of the Shenandoah. It is true that your American airship ran into a very bad storm, almost a tornado, but it would not have broken to pieces if it had been designed according to modern plans. Aerial styles change more quickly than any other kind, but they follow the dictates of Science and are steadily improving. Soon the plans that we are so proud of now will be regarded as mere experiments. I dare not estimate the progress of the future...