Word: variants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparent that Mr. Agee has read his Robinson appreciatively, for while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...
...patient last week, suffering from Malta fever. For several days his temperature was high, 103 degrees and above. But it was certain to go down to normal. As certainly, after a period of ease, it will go high again. Such is the characteristic of the disease, and hence its variant name, undulant fever. It is endemic along the Mediterranean coasts, particularly on the Island of Malta. In the U. S. Texas is the pest area. Those regions raise goats and goats are the carriers of the disease...
...variant of the company's slogan: Dunlop Tyres?as British as the Flag...
...office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment of the debts (TIME, July...
...concentration changed in the Sophomore or Junior year would be minimized. Final selection in April would be the result of developed understanding of what Harvard College offers the thought-hungry. There seems no reason why the class of 1932 should be subject to methods of faculty advising so variant in quality as those in present...