Word: traced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole the book is well written and interesting, but the subject is handled journalistically and there is little trace of scholarship. It probably has little historical value, if any?yet it is well worth reading...
...much of a fool as the man who really studies in college. Others will claim with greater seriousness that the real value to be gained from college is the ability to meet and handle other men and that this is best acquired outside the classroom. Still others will trace the emphasis on practical achievement in college to the materialistic basis of American civilization and will contend that college men are best preparing themselves for life by the very means which Mr. Lamont condemns on the part of the private school men. Moreover, so it is claimed, they are forced...
...When we meet on this anniversary of the Armistice, is it to celebrate the war, the victory, or the peace that followed? I do not know. But this insistent fact presents itself: that every thing man does must leave its trace indelibly in human lives; that an heroic deed has its effect upon the thoughts, and therefore on the acts, of other men. For us the value of the past lies in the future, and we measure that which has been done by what it makes us do. To honor those who have greatly lived and died is doubly right...
...bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...
...Significance. The Puppet Master is that rare thing, a fantasy without a trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism...