Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be, of course, suggested that this eavesdropper was someone who dearly loved and trusted the Mayor, but who still preferred to make sure her suspicious were groundless just for her own satisfaction. Or again, perhaps the wiretapper's admiration for the Mayor's personality led him to take this opportunity to listen in to become more intimate with and perhaps to capture its secret...
...into a billiard ball may be gaps which college could fill in. Moreover, may not many a man with an outstanding trait foreign to college be given a chance there to make of himself something more than a mere strong point? Or may he not, perhaps painfully to be sure, gain a familiarity with the average so that he may be able to make and keep contacts with society and normal life? And must a college limit itself only to averages, or will both be out of the ordinary and the average in many cases be mutually benefited by contact...
...keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other's have before the defense that is an offense, before the steady brillance and brilliant steadiness of the master of the amateur courts. BY TIME...
...unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount of what she is now importing from other countries...
...know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything that I know anything about and a lot of things that I don't know anything about. I am sure he enjoyed the conversation, because he fell into the most peaceful and profound slumbers, and remained there...