Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning of the fifth the visitors were ahead 6 to 3. Here every thing happened at once and when the dust settled at the end of the inning, nine hits, a base on balls, and five stolen bases had netted nine runs for the visitors...
...Comrade Ratsky coincides to the letter with my opinion of Harvard. The great thing, he says, is to make them realize what we think of them. We must do something big, something enduring. Today, accordingly, as we sat through a tedious hour in Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called my attention to a part of the bench before him. Here he had smoothed a place with his knife and had inscribed deep, heavily-pencilled lines: "All of you here are but a herd of garbage swilling pigs. You shall rot in your stagnant tracks...
...father was a minister and poor, while Lawyer Chew lived in the only " mansion " in town and preferred Robert Ingersoll to Henry Ward Beecher?but that didn't make any difference to Guy and Bee. They quoted Browning and Henley to each other and thought the biggest thing in life must be to grow old together, like the picture in the advertising calendar of the stately old man and the silver-haired lady, holding hands and smiling...
...dignity of a title. But in England, fortunately, there is no limit to the number of peerages that can be created by the crown, and consequently new blood is being brought in to strengthen the institution. The Scottish peerage, where no increase is permitted, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past...
...judge by the number of offers from bond offices which the average senior receives in his morning's mail, the college education is not the utterly valueless thing it is commonly considered. There seems to be almost innumerable "houses" only too anxious for the addition of a few "bright young college men" to their staff of salesmen; even if those same bright young men have obtained a degree in Physics or English Literature by only the narrowest of margins...