Word: alienating
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...procedure was not wholly because of its anglophile coloring. The House Plan is admittedly an experimentation, and one which includes a definite intermingling of teachers with pupils. Besides being an anachronism in America, the whole idea of placing such a definite barrier between the tutors and students is distinctly alien to the success of the Plan. The objections to the High Table are just as applicable whether it is English or American. Everyone is well-enough satisfied at the first solution of this relatively unimportant detail. The House Plan means a break with many of Harvard's more important traditions...
There is nothing novel in Russian importation of alien architects: a nation without indigenous architecture, most of its monuments in the past have been successively the work of Byzantines, Italians, Frenchmen imported wholesale by such ambitious rulers as Peter I and Catherine the Great. But presently, in Russia, Moritz Kahn with 25 U. S. assistants will organize a Soviet designing bureau of some 4,500 architects and engineers. This bureau will be directed by B. E. Barsky, President of the Soviet Building Commission...
Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...
Coincident with this settlement was a request that the U. S. government discontinue a civil suit brought against onetime Alien Property Custodians Francis P. Garvan and A. Mitchell Palmer, the eleven partners of Hornblower & Weeks, the Chase Securities Co. and others...
...Other companies seized under the Alien Property Act included: Bayer Aspirin, Botany Worsted Mills, Merck & Co., Gera Mills, Pabst Brewing Co., Locomotive Superheater Co., International Textiles...