Word: uns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back five years later with breath-taking tales of the Yukon, Osage City was on its feet; his family no longer needed him. From time to time he disappeared; Sabra, industrious, civic-minded, became the town's solid first citizen, Yancey its stirring legend. Hard-drinking, straight-shooting, impulsive, un- reliable, Yancey had wanted to build Utopia on the Oklahoma prairie: the women were too much for him. What came was not Utopia but civilization: women's clubs, department stores. Yancey's spectacular end was like him: at a crisis he appeared suddenly from nowhere, did the prodigious thing, saved...
...realized. Conditions in the new buildings are such that modification of the rule concerning the entertainment of women guests, for example, could well be effected. The new spirit of the Houses makes it reasonable for steps to be taken to follow the lead of other eastern universities where un-chaperoned women guests are permitted in the students' rooms at specified times. Cooperation of the committees with the Masters is a logical way to work out such a plan whereby on definite occasions, such as the afternoons of football games, Harvard under the House Plan may enjoy an open house...
...disparity between the two figures is not, in itself, important. Your magazine is rather widely read. It is regarded, by a majority, as reliable (even in the matter of figures). A preponderance of your readers are grossly un informed on the point of the total strength, just now, of the military forces of this nation. The movement looking toward a reduction of Naval armaments is in full swing. By such a gross misstatement of the strength of the country's Navy many well-meaning persons would feel that material reduction should be effected. By a proper knowledge...
...tonnage of seven hundred and twenty-five thousand tons for France by 1937. Such a program if consistently carried out would embody a possible substantial increase of both United States and British armament. Although the precipitate Tardieu subsequently lost his government temporarily for his rash proposal, it is not un-natural that the fact that the proposal was made at all in the conference jolted American confidence in the ultimate outcome of diplomatic wranglings to the extent of a few petitions...
...Schubert--Ganymed. Brahms--Botschaft. R. Vaughan Williams--The Sky above the Roof. Giordano--Un di All'Assuro Spasio (Chenier), Mr. Partridge...