Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, Robert Todd Lincoln is 82, an age at which any man is entitled to retire from the unblinking gaze of the public eye, but, even more, he has encouraged that eye to rest its glance elsewhere. He has always done the best things quietly, beginning with the selection of his father, in 1843, continuing through his education at the University of Illinois, Phillips Exeter and Harvard. The last of these he left in 1864 to go on the staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after...
...course of time, the editorial arrived at the desk of the chairman of the Yale Daily News, undergraduate daily. It seemed an obvious thing to quote; so he marked it for quotation on the editorial page of his own publication. Next day, sure enough, students read in the News...
...tutorial method something new in the way of making education stimulating and more human, something added to the old system in effectiveness, it is no less true that they recognize in the lecture system an educational device which is also useful and stimulating when rightly conducted, though, to be sure, useful and stimulating in a way peculiar to itself...
...established to be handed down from above by "those who know" and taken on faith; to change a student's mental attitude from one of receptivity to critical activity--these are among the benefits conferred by lectures of the type which at Harvard are common, though, to be sure, not universal...
Among the seniors there are 689 men who are eligible to vote, and these are being notified of the fact by postcards. They have all been urged to make sure that their ballots are included in the vote to be taken on Wednesday...