Word: surest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if you please, " by arousing pride and joy in his heart. . To interweave heroic deeds, battles long ago and proudly remembered feats and sacrifices with rocks and rills, boundless plains and happy valleys is the surest means of vitalizing the instruction of the school. It is not necessary to inculcate hatreds, but it is desirable to arouse pride. There's not a culture worth the name that is not founded on patriotic deeds...
...University team captain Gordon has proved himself the surest point-gainer. Since the season began he has led the scoring and his ability was well shown in the game which the University took from M. I. T. last Saturday night when he scored 16 of the University's 28 points...
...University has no class rushes or mud-battles, considered in many colleges the quickest and surest way of bringing a class face to face. The traditional Harvard man is supposed to feel that he has outgrown that sort of thing. If so he has forgotten, in his maturity, to find a satisfactory substitute for the fellowships of the free...
...surest test of good parody is this; is it funny to the reader who never saw the original? Readers of the Lampoon's "Town and Country" number will be able to laugh even though they never subscribed to "Town and Country". The parody itself, plus a small injection of imagination, is enough to reconstruct that magazine in all its glory. No doubt the real "Town and Country" will be much in demand hereabouts--no one suspected what an entertaining periodical it was, before the Lampoon et to work and brought out its virtues. Parody is not only the highest flattery...
...writing mind with the surest and steadiest quality is, I venture to believe, that which ripens slowly in the wind and air and sunshine which naturally comes its way. It does not admit impatiences, or rebellion to discipline, or too fierce a love for the purple patches of life and nothing else. To write well, to write abundantly, to write long, so that having embarked on profession we do not have to face the prospect of being stranded high and dry in it, we need "school." Of "school" the American temperament is of all temperaments the most defiant...