Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unbending professor, he gathers his band and goes to pay the professor a call. Half an hour later he comes out with his mark raised to a substantial B. The one objection would be that the band would probably charge more than the Widow's though to be sure the effort would not cost the student such mental agony...
This is the sort of piece which is usually identified with the word "charming". That is what grandma would have called it, and grandma is sure to get a big treat out of "Just Fancy". So are you, if the producers will only cut out a few of the more tedious passages...
Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, is surely one of the world's most busy men. Last week especially did he toil in the hushed and shadowy gardens of the Vatican in Rome. A large part of his labor was, to be sure, of a somewhat contemplative variety; the eyes of his attention, diverted always to the odd corners of the world, rested upon the U. S., where the affairs of the Roman Church flourished exceedingly...
...Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...custom of hurling brickbats at American colleges and their system of study has by now become rather hackneyed; still, when a man so distinguished as Hamilton Holt takes up the cudgels, he is sure to get a hearing. His assault on the lecture and recitation systems at the luncheon of the Harvard Teachers' Association Saturday has drawn no little attention, for he represents not impotent battering at what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America...