Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English a citizen should write to an Anglican bishop who happened also to be a trustee of a non-Catholic college and pointed out a similar fact no and would be brightered. Men would take up the debate in an open fashion and intelligent men would adopt a quiet gone in canvassing the innovation...
National anthems are not made to order. You can't tell a person to compose one and then arbitrarily adopt it. They spring full-grown from the national consciousness. They are born, not in the study, but in moments of stress, in great national crises. The Marseillaise grew out of an hysterical mob. The Star-Spangled Banner was inspired by the bursting of bombs by night. Most national anthems are old songs whose symbolic significance came to them later-almost unconsciously. Most of them are worthless as poetry. Many are not notable as music. Ireland, overlooking the psychology...
...second half tell a very different story. It was during the third and fourth quarters that Harvard displayed a brand of football that warrants an optimistic outlook. A brilliant runback of the opening kick-off by Hammond was the forerunner of the policy the Crimson backs were to adopt the remainder of the game...
...James Lenox. It cares for thousands "without regard for race, creed or color." Over 65% of its ward service is given free. When Lord Lister, about 50 years ago, brought forward his theory of antiseptic treatment in operations, the Presbyterian was among the first hospitals to adopt it, as it was also among the first to introduce medical social service and visiting nurse work. Its present abode, antiquated and inadequate, was erected in 1892. Now it will launch a drive?the first public appeal it has ever made?to complete the building fund. Members of the committee in charge...
When answered in the affirmative, Mr. Maude exclaimed, "You know, that is a shame. Why, I have always been a great supporter of college courses in dramatic writing. Before I ever came to this country I tried to persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt something of the sort. Mind you that was before I ever had heard of Professor Baker. The critics laughed at me and Punch published a rather humiliating but very amusing cartoon of Bernard Shaw. Barrie, and other well-known playwrights all sitting in front of a blackboard at school. Then when I came over here...