Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee on admissions seem to be straws pointing toward a definite tendency among candidates for admission toward seeking entrance through the Old Plan of examination. Those undergraduates who remember the gruelling horror of yearly examinations in preparatory school may be at a loss to explain this phenomenon; but the suspicion will arise that this preference for the Old Plan originates in a conviction that, all chances calculated, the Old Plan is the safest bet for admission. By the nature of its mechanics, the Old Plan is undoubtedly better adapted to intensive tutoring methods and in addition, it gives the candidate...
...detain the traveler long or absorb his whole attention. Dictatorship is absolute. There is no freedom of speech, political assembly, or from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Deportations to Siberia still occur. People are still shot because an aristocratic emigre in Paris drunkenly mumbled sounds which resembled their name. Suspicion and espionage are rife. But the people seem happy, in the main...
...knew nothing then of electricity, "knows less today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards a screwdriver with suspicion and a monkey-wrench with horror." Modest, he will permit no one to address him as "Doctor," though his abiding passion for English literature has caused three universities to confer upon him honorary degrees...
When Lawson became a partner of Melville E. Stone, he made a covenant with him that neither would buy the securities of any public service corporation for fear they might lay their paper open to the suspicion of serving that green-backed, slobber-jawed ogre, THE INTERESTS...
...five are ex-Army officers and one is a business man. The fact that four of the Army men were appointed to Southern districts in which Republican Senators are but slightly interested, sharpened the suspicion that General Andrews' attempt to get new men had caused a political storm before which he was forced...