Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." This dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, end art began again...
Herbert L. Cushing, President of Kearney, spoke for the group--four Nebraska teachers college--when he declared they were opposed the having debaters "spend half their time . . . arguing the Communist side." If added that someone "is trying to indoctrinate a few thousand American college youths with what I consider to be a dangerous philosophy...
...enough and oarnestly enough we can all hope to do something worthwhile. When we try to enlarge men's conception of beauty, truth and happiness, we are on the road to achievement. We cannot all be great after the world's opinion, but in the midst of the one thousand small things we can keep our spirits serene and our hearts sweet...
...Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." The dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, and art began again...
...that four whole lines from Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love turn up again with hardly a word changed in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, or that after Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful thinking, e.g., "Here is my dagger" (Marlowe); "There is my dagger" (Shakespeare...