Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
...Another splendid lesson that comes to her with scouting is the ability to play. She is not one of the girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...
...first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money was to write more books, this principle accounts for the existence of many a Balzac masterpiece...
...Britishers will pursue a large variety of subjects in the U. S.-ranging from bacteriology to the Scottish influence in 18th Century America, from agricultural geography to city planning, from economics to inter-racial problems, from law to electrochemistry. They will scatter themselves at many a university: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Clark (at Worcester, Mass.), Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Stanford...
...conquerors are currently honored, termed "World's Champion," richly rewarded. The vanquished, less honored, also receive goodly purses. Players scatter back to native farm, garage and couch; magnates balance their books; another major league season has passed into history...