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...Puerile is here used as a synonym for boyish, which has been done to death in connection with the Prince by the daily press of the world...
Northfield, Mass., synonym for Dwight L. Moody, gives shelter to one conference after another. Its most famous "General Conference" closed last week. Said one Jessie Donahue, acting as special correspondent of the Boston Transcript...
...such sales the statute requires the President to consider the public interest. Public interest is not a synonym for money. It may not be defined in terms of finance. It embraces all the great public needs. It permits dealing with the conditions which exist in the nation so as to bring out of them the greatest welfare of its people. . . The transaction in suit was not one granting a subsidy to a private industry. It was a devotion in the public interest of the property to a public use. The property is available to any American citizen, copartnership or corporation...
...through only half the "U's" a rich supply with only a few in use. A little digging has given us, for example, "peduncles" in a press despatch referring to the space between two semi-circles side by side. A popular novelist unearthed "carapace" to give us one more synonym for "shell". Kipling, Conrad, and Meredith knew the value of the "mot juste" and have forced their readers to learn the value of the dictionary. When one starts out to enrich the vocabulary in this way the possibilities are limitless. See how a little diligence can improve the usual novel...
...coach in 1908 and in the eight years that he held the position Harvard won 64 games out of 77, five games ending in a tie. He devised and established at Cambridge the most dangerous combination of strategy and strength in American football. The " Haughton system " is virtually a synonym for victory. Since 1916, he has acted in an advisory capacity to Head Coach Bob Fischer...