Word: uprightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the latter two-thirds of the book; but, because the plot is still going on, in terest continues to the end. The writer's attempt to be literary is cen tred on his similes ? one on nearly every page. The prize examples: "He carried his left hand upright like a bouquet and through the bandages a spot of red stood out like a scarlet snow-flower on a mountain slope...
...impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some criticism of the Lampoon's taste in running these particular pictures. But everybody except the police will recognize that this issue was a satire, and a very clever satire...
...There is coming a time when Williams College, having reached the parting of the ways, will have to choose between two principles of education; modern vocationalism or old-fashioned humanism. She cannot straddle both policies if she is to stand upright in character and individuality. Of course there is always the possibility of choosing the middle path; those who cherish a love for the golden mean will arise and proclaim its virtues vociferously...
...this famous Mr. I? Mr. I is a quiet Chinese student who signs his names with a single straight stroke of the pen. An upright dash, that is Mr. I. That is all, and enough to set grave and learned philologists deliberating. These worthy scholars have bestowed upon Mr. I the superlative degree hence his fame-- by declaring that his "must be the shortest name in existence, as it is composed of but one letter and the letter which uses less ink than any other of the alphabet...
...fish, and removed one eye with its nerve into this passage, so that the eye, instead of projecting to the side, looks directly upward, the remaining eye being blinded. When the eye is thus transplanted, the fish turns and swims on his side instead of in the usual upright posture. These experiments indicate that the eye has a definite function in maintaining the equilibrium of the body. It has heretofore been generally believed that the function of balance was maintained primarily by the semicircular canals which form a part of the interior mechanism...