Word: scoffs
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...academic world and all that it needs to do to claim it is again to burst forth in forensic splendor. The subject of "Is Harvard Collegiate?" will doubtless provide sufficient scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...
...Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, that the Singapore naval base would not be "a great base for concentration," but "comparatively a minor establishment." Lord Balfour (ex-Premier A. J. Balfour), one of the two elder British statesmen (the other is ex-Premier Lord Roseberry), rose to scoff politely at Labor and Liberal opposition to the base. Said...
...identity of the sorehead is unknown. On the cover of the book it is announced that the author, is "Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith," while the publisher is declared to be the "Pessimistic Society of Cambridge." But that he finds much to scoff at in Harvard and her professors is apparent from his score or more of sonnets, written in more than passing verse, which appear in his little volume...
...Eddie O'Neil. He has received a letter from the Governor's own hand, and that is enough. From now on he is a citizen and a patriot, just as certainly as though astrology were a proved science. In the years to come, others may rail at authority and scoff at law; Eddie will be a constant supporter of the established order. For him the glow of the State House dome will always be more than mere gilt paint, and the majesty of government something less distant than a vaguely imagined, impersonal "they...
...more masterful physique are of mortal value to the world, then I say that it is much easier to impart this to Jews by blood, than to wait centuries until Jews return to muscle-building trades. Surely, you who praise immediate action and results, efficiency in short, cannot scoff at such an effective (though ludicrous) plan as I offer: and besides, if I am not mistaken, Mendel's units would substantiate my argument on the results, physically, on the offspring. Leo Slafsky...