Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Follette has not yet said he will be a candidate. His health, to mention only one consideration, might prevent his entering upon such an enterprise. Republican papers suggested that he might run out of resentment, by threatening his party to make it write his wishes into its platform...
After 40 years in professional chairs, an eminent teacher is retiring to rest and t@ devote himself to the labor which he loves best. He is Dr. Frederick J. Turner of Harvard. With the close of the term he leaves for Madison, Wis., where, in his retirement, he will write on American, especially on western American history...
...quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that insouciant and child-like Lothario, Sam Pepys, and Beaumarchais, of whom...
...application 27 checking operations have to be made. The matter will be complicated by the fact that the files include 50,328 Smiths, 40,101 Johnsons, 28,902 Browns and 27,938 Williams's, and by the fact that about 23% of those entitled to apply cannot read nor write the English language...
...imposition of one system on the top of another-English. If you will, upon American-has been commented on before. So, too, has the fact of human nature that there are many men to whom the trick of writing a good examination must-always remain a mystery. There, of course, lies the first unfairness. Give me for a few hours a man who has a certain natural wit; and I can teach him enough blue-book "fricks" to guarantee him as pass over the man who knows his work thoroughly, can speak it and ever use it to advantage...