Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meier-Graefe's book, to be exact, is not a biography in the classic sense of the word. To put the matter generally, it is the attempt of an astute and typically German mind to understand and to some extent lay bare a notice and typically Russian mind. And the attempt is singularly successful. From the very nature of the works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would...
...easily arise under the scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity and the heat from them makes every word sparkle with the sheer reality that at last a poet, using a medium of great poetry and not prose gone mad, has accomplished an enthralling tale of an always peculiarly fascinating...
...universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...
Then the Smith program was repeated: 1) A "scientific" redefinition of the word "intoxicating" in the Amendment; 2) modification of the alcoholic percentage fixed by the Volstead Act; 3) amendment of the Amendment to return the whole liquor question to the States...
...Many a widow's mite, many a tot's tithe swells the total. Part of Treasurer Carnes's job was to lend money to needy wayside churches, and Treasurer Carnes thereby made contacts with wayside bankers, whom he won as he had won the board. His word alone was good at many a Southern bank, and often he borrowed $15,000, $10,000 and like sums "for the board...