Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from other aspects, matters would be more complicated. As a transferred student from the University of Chicago I am familiar with the Western Conference, or "Big Ten" (Chicago, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio Stat, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Northwestern, and Purdue). The conference system has one very great failing, namely, the utter unreliability of determining the championship, which I shall endeavor to illustrate. Last year Chicago won the Big Ten Championship, although the Maroon success was due to three tie games and only two victories. One of the tie games was with Wisconsin, which did not win a game, and consequently...
...young man who has most to do is a talker. He talks so much and so smoothly that he does not bother to work. The system suffices until he talks another man out of his fiancee and marries her himself. Then, in a heroic bit of utter implausibility in the last act, he talks himself into his rich uncle's favor. Apparently he is going to go through" life on the same principle. Not a bad idea, but is it practicable...
...wrong. On the contrary, the impression one gains is that most of it is right. There is, to be sure, a fairly general failure to recognize the value of discipline simply as discipline. Side by side stand two critiques of English courses, the first of which proclaims utter scorn of collegiate study of "elementary grammar," and the second of which opens with a sentence that involves a glaring fault in sequence of tenses. This is laughable enough, and possibly serious. But other reviewers show a warm recognition even of the worth of discipline, whenever the hand that guides...
...against the movement of the writing - a writing informed, under its cool, low laughter, with an unforgettable emotion - moved phantoms the old man knew, ghosts that had shared and lost with him the long war of innocence against the lie of actuality. Sometimes the clear words seemed about to utter the unutterable, to shape the secret that everyone knows and no one can tell of the anger of childhood, the bewilderment of middle life. The old man groped furiously to remember something. . . failed. . . . put down the magazine...
...Freyre appeared to be somewhat uncomfortable. Despite the declared good intentions of General Pershing and Señor Edwards, he insisted, which seemed unnecessary, on a fair poll, "the establishment of an atmosphere of security among all Peruvian voters so that they will have a sense of utter confidence in exemption from all restraint...