Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants of Iraq) against Turkish claims to Mosul. The Turks claim Mosul on ethnological grounds, a claim which is patently absurd, because the percentage of Turks there is small. None of the nations concerned utter so much as one syllable about oil-but oil is meant just the same...
...heartily in favor of discussing the question of socialism" and Professor Hart, "and personally wish it were possible for men in this University to hear the most rabid socialist in the country. Then they would see the utter fallacy of his argument. What is Harvard College for if not to stimulate men to think for themselves...
...postponed annual meeting of the Massachusetts High School Athletic Association. I never sat through a meeting where the discussion seemed so pointless. Principals of schools were attempting to formulate a set of uniform eligibility rules for all schools in the state. They failed to recognize the utter impossibility of such a task, for conditions vary too much in different sections of the state. The athletically related group of schools in one district may very well have certain athletic traditions of a desirable nature that are not common to schools in other parts of the state...
...will agree with Dr. David Kinley, President of the University of Illinois, that the people "who are running around in circles, beating tin pans and waving their arms to attract the attention of the world...to the utter inadequacy of our colleges and universities, the incapacity of their faculties and the imbecility of their students, need not take up much of our consideration or time." Such an attitude, however, smacks of the expedient of pouring oil on troubled waters. As long as there are any obvious flaws in the educational machinery there will be a spluttering of pens...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...