Word: surprisingness
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Reports are continually coming to the College police concerning cases of stealing, in which the losses vary from one to several hundred dollars. That such a situation should exist in Cambridge at the present time is not surprising: a wave of robbery has affected every university and college in the...
Though not as dramatic and surprising as the presentation of America's proposal to stop building battle fleets, the way in which the next two subjects for the consideration of the Conference at Washington were introduced was effective and not lacking in dramatic elements.
The report comes from the library that the book thieves are still plying their trade. They have in no way been discouraged by the exhortations to mend their ways which have been directed at them. It is not surprising that they have not; a man who will forge a desk...
The coming assembly at Washington, we are told, is to be of the first type in that its decisions are expected to be openly arrived at. Whether it will later degenerate into an impasse depends on the attitude of the delegates; it would not be very surprising, however, if the...
I say that it is surprising because everything tends to destroy whatever loyalty the men might have. When they go to some other institution, they nearly always support it whole-heartedly. In the case of Harvard, they are given to understand, both here and among alumni out over the country...