Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there are to be huge "M's" and "H's" amidst the galaxy of color. The whole town of Ann Arbor is celebrating the coming of the Crimson...
...reader should be always unconscious. The English language should not be slaughtered to such a degree that it becomes irritating, nor should the style be toned up to such a degree that it becomes noticeable. It is all very well to develop a background that will help the whole atmosphere of the tale, but it is a mistake to make the background too prominent. It has the same effect of the announcement interrupting a radio program to advertise whosis' blue-white diamonds. S. S. Vine Dine makes his hero, Philo Vance, in the Greene and Canary Murder Cases...
...between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this operation depends upon the power of the pack as a whole to shove hard, and upon the footwork in getting the ball back...
...fingers of guilt can be pointed at only a few of the exiles it is hard to discover the point of exacting such a harsh penalty. If, on the other hand, the whole group are guilty, it seems thoughtless of the college authorities to leave eighty landlords of the peaceful city of Ann Arbor to the mercy of such Bachanalian roomers...
...face the face that this is only the beginning. What will Boston and Cambridge be fifty years from now? The Metropolitan District of Boston already has a population of about a million and a half. In half a century more it will have two or three million. Like the whole surrounding region, Cambridge will be more and more densely populated. It will be a place of brick and mortar, of noise and scurry and distraction, no longer a suburb of pleasant houses, shady streets, simple and quiet ways...