Word: surprisingness
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(3 of 3) opposing elements. The fact, however, that the increase was so large is surprising." Railway shopmen, maintenance of way employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation...
That modern dealers are willing to pay extravagantly for Gainsborough, Lawrence, Romney, Reynolds, is not surprising. Gentlemen of the 18th Century always understood the art of being well-kept. While they lived they were blessed with money and untormented by morals. Life was obsequious to them. Death has followed suit...
"In the persistence of this attitude, it is not surprising I there is little productive research carried on by young Doctors of Philosophy. Nearly all of them would prefer to I teach, than to spend time in tiresome and painstaking solution of historical problems. And the research itself, tedious and...
It was really surprising that he had continued his fruitless efforts as long as he had, except that he was an Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson...
The sources from which a portrait of Demosthenes might be drawn are, of course, much scantier than those Mr. Bradford had at hand. Still, it is probable that even if Demosthenes had lived in the last century, M. Clemenceau would not have treated him much differently. Here again it is...