Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cents. Hence, as pointed out elsewhere in this paper, for all those students who cannot afford to waste money freely the charge amounts to a requirement that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money an undergraduate can afford to throw away...
...Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President of China at the rate of 2,000 per hour without stopping day or night, the President would go without sleep for one whole month. There are probably not less than one-half million of people in China today who are blind in both eyes; probably five million more who are blind in one eye, and at least 15 million who are nearly blind, many of whom will be totally blind within...
Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted...
When the idea that the banner of victory is the sum total of reasons for playing on the athletic field wavers in the minds of those concerned and the realization that there are further ends attainable, besides that of conquest, an advance in the methods of judging the whole basis of athletic participation is palpable to thinking...
That the team should receive congratulations is natural, that it should be lauded on account of victory unnatural. Harvard has other rivals than Yale and the mere fact of conducting friendly athletic relations with those other teams has broadened the whole outlook on sports. It is not too strange to think that at future time, when severed bonds with Princeton have been spliced, the meaning of victory over Yale will have lost still more of its single significance in comparison with all the events of an entire season...