Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Only of one thing can we be certain, and that is, that to apply the Procrustean formula suggested by the Association's pending proposals is to cut off here a foot and there a head, leaving broken and bleeding the processes of administrative law which still hold so many hopes for a better realization of the eternal promise of American life...
...college necessarily obtained very good prices. His estimate was that Harvard gets the best quality meat at very low prices from jobbers with excellent reputations. To check on prices from another angle, the Committee compared a list of prices paid by Harvard for meat, butter, and fish on a certain day with the sale prices quoted by a number of large wholesalers and jobbers in Boston. Again it was found that the University buys at a considerable saving over the open market price...
...checking on a number of occasions the amount of food returned to the kitchens uneaten, the Committee came to the conclusion that certain dishes reach the students cold and flavorless. Particular offenders in this respect are certain vegetables: broccoli, string beans, celery, spinach, brussels sprouts, and cabbage, to name but a few. For example, at lunch on February 27 in Leverett House 42 orders of lima beans were returned to the kitchen uneaten or barely tasted; 196 people were served at lunch that day. On the preceding day at lunch in the same dining hall, 40 orders of parslied potatoes...
...sanc, as natural as any creation ever to come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can be said with equal conviction that in many cases his deranged mind has succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary, his work reflects a certain kind of clear-sighted vision, a kind of vision or insight which...
...certain amount of the current does radiate from the pipes in the form of radio waves. These can be picked up almost anywhere in the University. No attachment to the radio is necessary, although a wire connected to a radiator will increase the volume...