Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patient. The blood of different people varies greatly in its chemical composition, and if the wrong kind of blood is put in a patient it is very likely to kill him immediately. So we have to examine the blood of both donor and patient very carefully to make sure that no such catastrophe could possibly occur...
...hardly likely, however, that Maryland can repeat its 1923 performance. Losses from graduation and ineligibility have been heavy, and if Yale plays up to form the visitors will do well to hold the Blue to three touchdowns. Yale has, to be sure, failed to show much of a scoring offense so far, but the power is there, and the season is reaching the stage where the latent power should begin to show. As a dress-rehearsal for the Princeton game a week hence, today's encounter will hardly be satisfactory unless the Blue eleven rolls up a substantial margin...
...order. Long ago they carried the center of population across the Alleghenies. So delinquent have they grown in respect for their elders, that when an Easterner talks about New York, some Westerner interposes Southern California. If the East boasts possession of the capital of the nation, the West is sure to drag in Kansas City, the heart of the continent". The West has long demanded, if not a President, at least a Vice-president from its ranks. Even in football they have tried to snatch glory from the East by setting up the Big Ten Conference to outshine...
...quite true that the people of Hungary need not expect to encounter many Esperantists at Harvard or in North America in general. Are we quite sure that the Hungarians are taking up Esperanto with that expectation? Possibly they may be using Esperanto as an introductory language instead of Latin. Will they find many speakers of Latin at Harvard? Perhaps they wish to enter into relations with their neighbors of Chekoslovakia, Poland, Ukrainia, Russia, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Greece, not to mention the Baltic and Levantine nations. Why learn English, French, and German? Esperanto is sufficiently spread throughout Eurasia...
...tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave it for his fellow city employe with the other cart...