Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cavalier and spasmodic treatment of so entertaining a type of prose is unworthy of the English department. The short story is far too important a step in the development of English and American literature to be neglected. It has not only gained a place in the world of fiction, but has held it successfully, despite the onslaughts of its brother forums, the novel and drama, and it can truly be said that the novel alone supersedes it in popularity today...
...gauge double-barrel shotgun. He is right where he belongs - with his posterior perched on a bench. With those shiny, tight-fitting riding boots I'll guarantee that if he is foolhardy enough to venture "up the trail," he'll need someone to carry him home. That type of boot is made for riding and not for walking...
...Louis, threw a cogent idea into this muddle. Some diabetics, found he, are that way because the pancreas does not secrete enough insulin for the body's business. Such diabetics feel better if they get fats but no starches and sugars, thus resting their weary pancreases. Another type of diabetic suffers because, even if he produces a satisfactory amount of insulin, he has some inhibiting factor in his blood which prevents that hormone from acting on carbohydrates. That class of diabetics benefit, Dr. MacBryde found, when they eat great quantities of candy, pastry, bread, potatoes, spaghetti. The excess carbohydrate...
...finance, grafted, was guilty of staggering treacheries. Unlike them, he possessed a streak of integrity, was capable of writing artful and honest plays that expressed the dominant social conflicts of his time. In Paul Frischauer's excellent biography, Beaumarchais is analyzed as "a herald of revolution," since the type of conflict he dramatized was soon to explode in reality...
Moseley is the widely heralded "hulahipped back" who is one of the most elusive carriers Harvard has had in years. His particular type of running has suffered peculiarly from the lack of adequate blocking provided by his teammates...