Word: tha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor car to a bag of potatoes. Mr. Richards believes metaphors (comparisons) are the root of thinking, and that no metaphor is absurd if there is a specific and intelligible link between the things compared. Mr. Richards recalls that a Harvard English professor once christened his ancient Ford Thaïs (after the heroine of Anatole France's story) because "she had been possessed of many." "If we can do that to a car, successfully," twinkles Mr. Richards, "what limits can we confidently set to metaphor...
...less than one-fourth of that sum went to the insurance agency. In a suit brought by the city against Messrs. Curley & Santosuosso, Judge Fosdick found tha't the $85,000 had been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...
...true tha plain and unadorned junking of some of the measures of the past four years would constitute a net gain. But a policy of blanket condemnation, of unadulterated negativism could not and should not win the next election. The voter requires a plan of action, well-formulated ideas from the elephant before they will let him pull the national chariot out of mire into which the donkey, according to G.O.P. version, has drawn...
Make-up examinations in the following courses will be held at 2 P.M. in Harvard 6. By the regulations the examinations will last not more tha nthree hours...
...debating. Until another passing whim shall again seize the undergraduate and debating shall again become the fad of the cream of Brown men, nothing can be done about it. All we can do is sit back on our haunches and howell at the top of lungs the days tha used...