Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweepingly reverse what may be the irresistible tendency of modern civilization to create burdens it cannot carry and to set up a suicidal complexity of organization. Our civilization and the educational system it has produced may have to run their cycle until they break. But even if we suspect ourselves to be the victims of a process we cannot control, it is dangerous to admit it, and to surrender to it is simply to set ahead the date of our debacle. We must not rest content with a coward's refuge in unrelated specialisms...
...Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings in any age, with the sedative of tradition...
Every once in a while a diligent stroller finds a new course. Such a one is Geography 7, the title of which makes me suspect that the catalogue is just up to one of its playful little tricks, although there really may be seven courses in geography. Professor Mather is lecturing in this course at 10 o'clock in the Geological Museum, Room 4, on the influence of environment upon man in the Central Andes. Another new course for me offers an attractive subject at the same hour. Professor Carver is lecturing in Economics 7b on "Competition and the Struggle...
...hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that "the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace...
...Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan hotel, one Pierre Dehsdin, French champagne salesman, issued a public rebuke to U. S. bootleggers: "I have reason to suspect that a good deal of imitation champagne is sold in this country under forged trademarks; and I think that something should be done to stop this imposition, which is unfair to the French manufacturer...