Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem to accord with the spirit of a memorial. But it is only necessary to think of Harkness at Yale or of the Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton to dispel the prejudice against a "utilitarian" memorial. At its best a new dormitory might be a Harvard Harkness; at its worst it would serve a useful purpose. At i's best a new chapel would be a glorious, if somewhat lifeless, architectural monument: at its worst it would merely be a new Appleton...
...Discrimination exists everywhere. The worst and a common one is that a man can give away his child and take it away from his wife. In some cases he can will away his unborn child...
...system. American audiences have too long been fed on polite lies by European visitors and will derive much benen from honest, frank criticism. While Mr. Zangwill, paradoxical as it may seem, will doubtless begin to find good points even in Americans now that he has told them the worst...
...What this candidate really believed and would like to have said was that he was wholly and strongly opposed to the antivivisection movement, that he considered it the worst sort of nonsense, that anti-vivisectionists generally are misguided, soft-headed people who are working against the real interests of humanity and checking the advance of science...
...hand, the ordinary signs of approaching depression, such as declining iron production, and falling stock prices and interest rates, are apparent to all. On the other hand, business leaders talk optimistically, merchandising is very heavy and profitable, the railroads are getting some fat around their bones; worst of all, the stock market refuses to decline...