Word: write
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Counsel for the defense partially denied and partially attempted to explain away the activities of their clients on the grounds that they had merely been seeking "research material" for a pacifist German scholar who wanted to write a book exposing British militarism. When the "scholar" could not be produced or even proved to have existed, the defence became palpably thin, evanescent...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, professed ignorance of the identity of Alumnus Aquaticus." "He deposited the money in a Boston bank, and when ever I write to him, I leave my letter there," he said...
...interested in the trip should write to the "European Tour of American Teachers of German." College of the city of New York, Box 34, New York City...
...thinking. In the process he has shaped the development of careers which, without his inspiration and interest, might never have reached their fullness. To others uncertain of themselves, he has given of his courage. In return, he has asked only that those who have gone out into the world write him from time to time, and that the successful lend a hand to beginners and that when they return to Cambridge they permit themselves to be "exhibited" to the undergraduates as examples of what his "young men" can do if they "have a mind...
...instance, to point out at some length the irony latent in the fact that Walt Whitman's fame exists solely among the "scholar swells" he despised, and that he is absolutely unknown to the commonality of man for whom he professed to write, or that the incredibly ornate pish-posh of Henry James is explained by his belief that legible and comprehensive language of any sort is very vulgar, just, for instance, as an editor of the Harvard Crimson believes that any news anybody could conceivably want to read is very vulgar and therefore unprintable, to point out these...