Word: overwhelming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumnavigates the globe at will. So do radio, millionaires, white whales, tramps, salesmen, sometimes, U. S. Army fliers. To organize a college, enroll a student body of 450, put it on a ship and send it through the seven seas is another matter. The mind is willing but obstacles overwhelm. In 1924, New York University attempted it, bowed to "unforeseen difficulties," postponed it a year. Last week, "the detail work" caused postponement for another year. This announcement followed upon a statement, a fortnight ago, from Dean James E. Lough, author and sponsor of "Around the World College" (TIME, June...
...love and hope attended, joy whose raptures overwhelm...
...praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse with a smile, and, if the latter overwhelm them, can still smile--and try again. Delicately, and with a wonderfully sympathetic understanding Mr. Barry reveals to us Maitland White's tragedy--the tragedy of the artist who rejects his calling in favor of marriage and business, and realizes his mistake too late. The fact that his friend Nicholis...
...detail the ensuing plot with accuracy would take diagrams, a genealogical chart and reams of paper. But here the plot is not exactly of primary importance - the characters overwhelm it with their energy, their eccentricity and, at times, their excessvie gift for lengthy self-analysis. They are the book...
...true have these lines been proved that they almost overwhelm; but Mr. Punch does not confine himself to the Kaiser. He foresees the electric railroad engine, dirigibles bombing London (!) the result of woman suffrage (in a cartoon recently apologized for because of Lady Astor's and Lady Rhondda's political successes, the value of the wireless...