Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs to be revised and strengthened and, above all, we must have some other safety devices which will relieve the strain on the levee system in periods of super-floods and make them absolutely sure once and for all. . . . We cannot abolish the levee system...
...presence at Tientsin gave confidence to U. S. citizens in Peking. They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure...
Oscar fund Tom Mix. As he said later when grilled by the state's attorney, "If it isn't Tom Mix, who is it?" For sure enough there was either Will Rogers or Tom Mix riding the famous Tony and swinging the famous rope and telling fast ones while he shot buffaloes from nickles thrown by an Indian hanging in mid-air by his toes from the shoulders of a bandit. "Whee", quoth my roommate, "Whee". So then and there I decided to take him to commencement...
...tenure desirable in the office of assistant dean are not mathematically definable. The extraordinary has been clearly discernible in the work of Mr. Mayo, dean of the Sophomore class, and of Mr. Bacon, dean of the Junior and Senior classes. But as a working principle it is as reasonably sure of success as a long-term system. Assistant deans may not become estranged from the view point of the undergraduate in three or five years. Many of them grow, perhaps, in understanding of the student, but the appointment of younger graduates obviates any possibility of the Faculty dominating undergraduates...
...more than one occasion. (It was not, as it happens, a particularly new coat.) Hence his feelings at your paragraph. But Joseph is as shy as his memory is razor-keen, and on his behalf I venture, therefore, to exonerate him from an occurrence with which I am quite sure thousands of Americans reading TIME, and knowing Joseph, would have associated...