Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Altogether the present editors of the magazine have done a courageous thing--in setting forth so vivid an illustration of what the Monthly once was. They act a standard and issue a challenge, to be taken up by their own college generation. The thought, taste, and expression of this generation are bound to be different from those of twenty and fifty years ago. Let it represent the very best that Harvard can yield today, and twenty, fifty, years hence another retrospective issue will receive the welcome now extended to this...
...important thing is not to know definitely what you're going to do for the rest of your life," he continued, "but to start evaluating your abilities before you're actually up against getting...
...instance, students of China who have not studied modern history often repeat the old saw that China has been conquered several times before and always absorbed her conquerors, and so we can expect the same thing to happen again. This is dubious logic...
...added a prize fight, a regiment of California State Highway Police, a rain storm complete with sound effects, Hugh Herbert, and a strong dose of Hollywood's kind-hearts-are-more-than-coronets philosophy. All this tends to make the picture somewhat confusing until the fuller significance of the thing is grasped; it is an answer, almost a rebuke, to James Hilton; it shows in no uncertain terms how dreadfully dull Shangri-la would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would return to the World...
...were as old as I am, you'd realize that one thing after another turns out to be of little scientific importance," closed Professor Bering. "Just as the German horse and Mrs. Crandon did not withstand scientific investigation, so the Rhine effect may not bear fruit...