Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some difficulties, but as Dr. Spinden points out. "The Peruvians had no system of hieroglyphic writing and no carefully elaborated calendar." They were thus unable to conserve intellectual gains. But the Mayas had a well developed system of hieroglyphs, mostly ideographic, that is consisting of abbreviated pictures of the thing intended or of an object associated with...
President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard University is said to have said of Princeton's song, "Old Nassau": "The music is meretricious and the words are tawdry, but the fit of the thing is excellent"; and so I would say of TIME: It is wretchedly written and its music, theatre and book reviews are ridiculous, but the "fit" of the thing is super-excellent. I will be a life-subscriber...
...talent as a poet is not open to question among Frenchmen, who look to L'Academic française as their arbiter of culture. Several times that august body has appointed him its laureate. The thing is on record as a matter of fact-which impresses no people more than the French...
...hates to dun Speed. Speed is his friend, his good old boy friend, perhaps his fraternity brother. The thing goes on. Perhaps Speed never pays him back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...
...Faculty, is a progressive step which should prove epochal. Its significance can be limited only by the calibre of the man appointed to the position. The Corporation has formally recognized athletics to be an integral part of education. Hitherto athletics and academic pursuits have existed side by side as things apart, separate, distinct, rather than as two phases of the same thing,--the development of the complete man. With the incorporation of the one in the other, the University gives noteworthy recognition of the fact -- which more and more is coming to be acknowledged in American education--that the function...