Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college are at all important, they are worth, thinking about from-the very beginning. The average freshman does not think, to the extent that he inquires, examines, and reflects upon. He has an impression that he is going to concentrate in English: during his first year the impression, unless, stirred up and turned over, hardens and become a resolution. That is why, I believe, one encounters so many seniors who, when asked what their field of concentration is, answer with a weary shrug. 'Oh, English.' What is necessary is an adviser who at the outset will devote time to explaining...
...unit rule, or because of the State boss's weakness or through actual differences in individuals' opinions. But for the most part the chairman of each delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover...
...gather increasing entertainment each week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage, "unless you change your style or start a phonographic record department" must present a saddening alternative. Incidentally, our Junior's use of such verbal banalities as "quite a few," "Variety has far more than you" and so on, emphasizes the nerve of him, in assuming the role of Mentor...
Example: "The phrase 'think for one's self' is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking...
Boston city officials notified the H. A. A. a year ago that permission to erect the temporary wooden stands would not be granted another season, due to the danger of fire, unless the University was able to advance a plan providing for a permanent remedy of the seating problem in the Stadum. There has been an understanding that if such a plan were presented, with the assurance that construction would be complete by the fall of 1929, permission to rebuild the temporary stands would be given for this fall. Home games with the Army, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Holy Cross will...