Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the abideth forever. . . . For that which befalleth the sons of man befalleth beasts: even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth so dieth the other...
...queer thing, the friends a blind man makes," asserted Dan. "A man who buys a paper from me every day is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and he's always ready with a bit of cheerful conversation. He's taken me to dinner at the Colonial Club too, and he says that when things seem to be a bit black he thinks of the tough time I've had and realizes that it's not as bad as it might...
...curious, although natural thing, that the West has always had an interest in the East, ranging from the practical ideas of traders to the romantic notions of poets. For most of us, however, the East is thought of as a new discovery; a discovery that begins with the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo. Few realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely...
...conclusion, Professor Hornbeck said, "The Nationalist movement is a bigger thing than the Nationalist party. I believe in the Nationalist movement, which is nation-wide, and extends beyond the field of politics. I believe in it because national self-consciousness, expressed in a general awakening, is making toward progress, toward national unity, toward independence. When this has become a world of truly independent states, law will have some chance of being conclusive in international relations...
...those days," continued Mr. Bourdon, the boys were more friendly with each other than they now are. Each classmate knew every other classmate, and at the time of graduation, pictures of every member of the class were purchased by all. I thing those boys were more democratic than this generation is. The snobbish boy was then the exception; now, it seems, his is the rule. Also, when I came to Harvard, there certainly was plenty of liquor. They could let it be seen then, you know, and it was! There were bottles everywhere: most of them empty...