Word: utterer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million famine stricken Chinese is no small number, even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...
Moreover, he advances a panacea which if it could be practically applied would certainly remedy a situation, the instability and uncertainty of which at least no one will deny. Nowhere is the utter neglect of reliable standards more evident than in university and college life in general. And when, in the face of this fact, the impossibility of attaining an intrinsically sound basis outside of the circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy...
...market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train and boat connections elsewhere. There are other assets but these save the city from utter blacklisting...
...pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...
...that up to this time the proposed cessation of upper-class course meetings has been looked upon by the majority of students with more or less optimistic, and unknowing, docility. Now, however, when professors and instructors are beginning to portion out generous assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect. As has been said before, and as will be said until experience has proved the truth of the statement, Respite is not, in this...