Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed during the various Mohametan rebellions which have devastated that part of China. Their stay there was cut short by the unfriendly attitude of the villagers who regarded their investigations with suspicion...
...could make holiday after the taste and fancy of their natures; but, saving become not men but seniors, they have put away childish things. If it only made them feel better, there would be something to it; yet they have nothing to comfort them but boredom and an increasing suspicion that the laws of supply and demand apply neither to games nor to candles...
...immediate prospects of getting rid of him. "Are we generally interested in art and literature," asked Dr. Paton, "or are we primarily interested in finding an occupation where, unprotected by academic walls, we can live in an imaginary world far from reality?" Thus he voices the general suspicion that more than a few teachers in great colleges, as well as in less advanced departments of education, have turned to this profession not through a fierce and productive desire to plant knowledge where it will flourish but to find a quiet academic breakwater where they can dream comfortably...
...eyes of the infant and the primitive race Nature presents a chactic activity that at first glance is terrifying and bewilderingly disjointed. In both cases adolescence brings a certain sophistication in regard to this chaos and at the same time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute...
Among Sir William's closest intimates, however, there lurks the suspicion that his ready wit is tickled by "Jix" and "jixie...