Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that June, the convention month, is here, may I submit the following slate for your consideration? With this bunch conducting our affairs for the next four years, I am quite sure our institutions would never suffer again...
...apathy and even boredom that the Princeton undergraduate finds in his own problem, conceived alumni style, is completely natural. Nowhere does one find the affairs of the University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly...
Bill Mr. Kahn and be sure to address the peppiest magazine in America to the EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, St. Paul Daily News; let the business office, too, subscribe if it would read...
...hope than anxiety. He had nothing to lose except the votes of Kansas and his daughter. He had everything to gain in case of a compromise, for while he was not the fastest of the "dark horses," he was at least "dark" (see below). In Kansas City he was sure to see more friends than frustrators. On the farm issue he had voted for the farmers, then obeyed his President. Friendship and obedience make good bedfellows for ambition. And after the Presidency, after all, there is the Vice-Presidency...
...their sportsmanship-all this reads like a bad dream, like something impossible and unreal. It is as if they said, 'We planned to win by sticking a rake handle between Abraham's legs at the fifty-yard mark. It was a good scheme and it seemed sure to succeed. But at the crucial moment we didn't do it. This is real sportsmanship.' No, all this seems frankly incredible. Heretofore we have naively believed that the protests of the English in 1908 and of other foreign teams in later Olympics against the morals and manners...