Word: unpreparedness
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¶ The currency shortage found counterfeiters unprepared to take advantage of their great opportunity. Only reported attempt to do so was that of a Negro in Baltimore who gave a false 50? piece for a bottle of milk. Discovered, he clubbed the milkman with the bottle.
The Vagabond turned over lazily as the Chapel bell tolled the hour, swung his feet to the floor, and rejoiced that it was over. Once again he could ascond the dizzy heights of his aesthotic seclusion, leaving the sordid world of men and Professors. He lighted a leisurely pipe, that...
The Man. Born 44 years ago at Tremadoc, Wales of a good but not famed family with mixed Irish, Hebridean, Spanish and Norse blood, Thomas Edward Lawrence was one of five sons. His childhood was spent in Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, France. Hampshire. His family moved to Oxford...
''Whither does this tremendous procession tend?" he asked last week in his presidential address. "Man was ethically unprepared for so great a bounty. In the slow evolution of morals he is still unfit for the tremendous responsibility it entails. The command of Nature has been put into his...
Adams started off the seven-sided race for enrollment with an admitted handicap. It is a small House and the only one not entirely completed: though it is conveniently near the Yard, its surroundings are noisy and comparatively unattractive. Only one of its dormitories is modern, and the rooms incline...