Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the resignation of Dean Briggs, English 5, his famous course of composition, has enjoyed the migratory fate of the proverbial buck. Originally entrusted to Professor Copeland, who with great fanfare held a preliminary competition last spring to select the personnel of his course from the throngs of undergraduates and...
With daring circumspection officials probed the cake, which obstinately refused to explode. Clearly, then, it must be poisoned. Obviously, too, the only assured test of poisoned cake lay in the eating.
"Nothing," the reporters assured him, shaking their heads.
On the afternoon of that day, when Mr. Wm. Serrick went out on the Course to begin his game, an older brother stepped up to him and assured him that there was nothing in the note he had received that morning.
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country...