Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Meaning of Elegance. The American Look has developed almost unnoticed by the women who wear it. "Elegant dress," wrote Economist Thorstein Veblen in 1899 in The Theory of the Leisure Class, "serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive but also because it is the...
Seneca to Freud. Lewis would say the same of the Christianizing of Europe, a process once regarded as "unique [and] irreversible." "But we have seen the opposite process . . . Roughly speaking, we may say that whereas all history was for our ancestors divided into two periods, the pre-Christian and the...
Similarly, a mean of the estimated actual length of the meetings was 19 minutes, whereas the mean of the duration the freshmen desired was slightly less than 25 minutes.
Tommy Townsend with John Reed as crew scored only 75 points, whereas he might have won the "B" division if he had not been disqualified in three heats out of the ten in his division. In the "A" division, A. C. Langworthy with the crew of Mac Williams managed but...
There were various reasons for this. The trials were conducted "by officials sick with the weariness left by a great war." The code that governed them was a mongrel code, "a compromise between the English and American procedures." It proved to be diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it...