Word: thinks
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That is a shrinkage of five billions from last year, but it is an enormous total. Why not think of that? The drastic deflation is painful. In some cases it cuts to the quick, but after all the basic strength of the country remains the same, and in that is the welfare of our people year in and year...
...were founding a university--and I say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable (just think of that!)--I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more properly with that, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some textbooks...
...head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents to the essential Uncle Henry...
...believe that boxing is a natural sport for Americans. We borrowed it, of course, from the old world, but I think the youths of this country take to it so naturaly that they develop faster than elsewhere. I have found some excellent material since I started instructing at the University and in fact many of the boys in the classes have learned so rapidly that, in refereeing professional bouts, I have found many of the preliminary boxers do not know nearly so much about how to box as the boys in the classes. I do not attribute this to anything...
What differentiates "The Dame School" from other collections of essays and makes Dr. Crofters more than "the Charles Lamb of America" can be realized more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally...