Word: ideale
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...Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht...
...produced within a day's journey of the Kaw-Missouri confluence. The geographical centre of the U. S. is only 190 miles away near the centre of the northern Kansas boundary. The centre of U. S. population is a good 400 miles away, near Whitehall, Ind. But "an ideal spot," say Kansas Citizens, "to hold conventions concerning all the people...
...morning the two shells paddled downstream to the two mile mark and changed boats. Although the water was not rough, and the weather ideal for rowing, Coach E. J. Brown '96 did not have the crews race. The two eights changed shells and then paddled back over the two mile course. The only change in the seating was made in the second boat where A. A. Campbell '30 and B. J. Harrison '29 changed seats...
...afternoon with the rowing conditions still ideal and the water smooth the two crews had a three mile workout. The return to the boat house was made in short stretches to prevent any unforseen causalties...
...young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That is undoubtedly a brain test Whether it is the ideal test of brain power is another matter...