Word: surprisingness
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Mr. McSweeney attempts to show that there is hostile feeling in Great Britain against this country. After the Gerry bill it would indeed be surprising if there were not some hostile feeling against this country. Unfortunately, however, Mr. McSweeney cites several passages from Horatio Bottomely's "John Bull." The recollection...
The most surprising race of the afternoon was the quarter-mile, in which G. T. Barker '23, with a 20-yard handicap, took the lead after about the first 50 yards and spurted in ahead of H. F. Colt '22 by a scant two yards. F. W. Hall '20 finished...
Under existing circumstances, the Mexican disorders are not altogether surprising. Mexico has enjoyed a nominal republican regime for nearly a hundred years: but it is doubtful whether, in all that time, she has ever had a single leader who combined sound common sense with unselfish aims. A single term of...
With our safe remoteness and our incomplete knowledge of the facts it is not surprising that some of us should have branded this action as "French aggression." Dangers which seem very large across the Rhine are apt to appear very small across the Atlantic. We are still prone to regard...
Mr. Geer is doing a fine work. We believe that the surprising revival and increased interest in all forms of sport at Harvard among Freshmen and upperclassmen in due in a large measure to him and his helpers. Never before has there been at the University such an awakened interest...