Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department has been much concerned by the slow rate at which veterans have been applying for their bonuses. To be sure, claims may be filed until Jan. 1, 1928, but the veterans might be expected to demand at once whatever is coming to them. Of the 4,051,606 Army veterans, about 1,785,000 have applied. Only 64 have announced they will accept no bonus...
When a dog's nose isn't cold, when a child doesn't like jam, one knows that something has gone wrong in the constituted arrangements of nature. Now and then, however, one observes a dog or a child without detecting anything peculiar in his behavior, yet one feels sure that, if he is not ill, there is at least something strange the matter with...
There are other observers who are not so sure of this. Many currents and and cross-currents are at work in India at present making accurate judgement difficult. On the one hand, as Mr. Otto Rothfeld points out, a growing capitalism is overthrowing traditional economic institutions. In the wake of an industrial revolution have appeared materialistic tendencies in thought. This has brought all the force of Hindu idealism in revolt against importations of Western methods and ideas...
...place like Harvard are numerous and attractive. Men from private schools, particularly come here, not merely with a boy's eagerness to have a liberal taste of such things after the stricter life of school, but with the emphatic exhortation of there older friends that they should be sure to do something for the College. They, accordingly, feel deeply the responsibility that the dances in Boston go off successfully, and that there are a sufficient number of candidates to manage our teams, edit our papers, and so forth. All this is good in moderation...
...three weeks before its occurrence we have to go through all the motions of taking the photographs. Sometimes the slide will stick, or the camera may not be in working order. Nothing like this can be allowed to happen on the day of the eclipse. We must be absolutely sure that everything is in perfect order, and we must practice for speed. In the past, I have often had the stop watch on me, as I practiced changing the slides. A few seconds makes all the difference in the world...