Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Library room could be kept open until eleven-thirty o'clock it would not only help such men but it would lessen considerably the number of books taken out of the Library overnight. Thoughtless improvements for Widener are easy to suggest; funds are lacking even for well-considered ones. But the remedy in this case is simple and practicable, and the expense seems justified by the number of students whose time and convenience would be served. The History reading-room, on the ground floor, seems the most logical room to keep open. If this room were used, the rest...
...present of the United States Government offering mediation between the French and Germans. It is not even sure that America would be willing to undertake the task, if asked; just now the French would certainly consider it an unfriendly action. The British Government, yielding to political pressure, may suggest that a settlement be decided by an impartial court or the League of Nations. At present indications point that the Government feels with Lord Derby, who recently remarked: "My heart goes with France, but my head remains on the other side of the Rhine...
However, a few titles that suggest themselves for the delectation and profit of the ill-starred mariner are the following: (1) Checkbook; (2) Joyce's Ulysses; (3) Cicero's De Senectute; (4) Walter Camp's Daily Dozen; (5) Cookbook; (6) Coué's Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion; (7) The Bartender's Guide; (8) The family photograph album; (9) Joke Book; (10) The Book of Etiquette...
...evening of movies attractive. The social worker actuated entirely by charitable motives will of course govern her preferences by her escort's pocket-book; and, after seeing everything in New York in the service of mankind will be a most capable "What's what in New York", able to suggest those amusements equally suited to his disposition...
...today--and there are many of them--who complain against being obliged to take a science course when they are going to be lawyers, or a literary course when they are going to be scientists, have always had the answer that "it broadens them". Dr. Eliot's remarks now suggest another answer: it gives them a chance to make sure that their first choice is correct, and that they have chosen work in which they can find continued joy. Dilettantism in the college, a tendency to try a little of everything, is much condemned; but, in one respect, there...