Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military mass meeting is to be held in the New Lecture Hall tonight. To many this may suggest simply a gathering at which long-winded jingoists will arise and orate mercilessly about the great and glorious institution of war, while the audience will slumber tranquilly thinking much more about peace until a few seconds before the end of said orations. Of course the thing following is thundering applause...
With all due respect to those who are presumed to possess wisdom, we would suggest that what we desire is not glossing lies, nor panicky lies, but the truth...
...many of the younger English poets today have derived from Andrew Marvell and others of the 17th century. In point of style, he may already be classed with writers like Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, and Walter de la Mare. With a little more intensity of mood, he might even suggest Ralph Hodgson, for he has at times a distinct trace of Hodgson's mystical vision. But the closest resemblance of all, in this particular poem, is to James Stephens, of whom there is a very good reminder in the touch, in the last stanza, about the "lone...
...librarian how serious he considers the university's need of more funds for its library. The splendid new Widener Memorial building scarcely prepares one's mind for a cry of poverty. And the great size of Harvard's collection, now numbering nearly two million books and pamphlets, does not suggest deficiency. Later reflection, however, calls to mind how serious must be the demands which arise from this very fact of the collection's size. The Widener Library has given suitable housing to the main store of Harvard's books, but there remain the detached collections of various departments, and conditions...
...whether this production is numbered among Mr. Maxim's literary works or whether it was dashed off for the occasion, in which case it would be discourteous to criticize it. Mr. Maxim takes the patriotic eagle severely to task for having ceased to scream. With all respect we would suggest that a screaming eagle is not a happy symbol for any nation, that what our patriotism suffers from more than anything else is a super-abundance of screaming, and that perhaps when we have ceased to scream we shall begin...