Word: alteration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present it is undeniably the procedure of the United States to support, in a civil conflict, the administration favorable to North American business. And however pragmatically sound this policy may be, it is not held to be morally defensible by its opponents here and abroad. To collect debts and alter governments by force of arms as the United States has regularly done is usually called imperialism, despite the assertions of Mr. Coolidge. It was the treatment of Nicaragua several decades ago that gave rise to the term "dollar diplomacy", and more recently the casual remark of a marine...
...highly probable that nine times out of ten the student is wrong and his advisor is right, but that does not alter the situation in the slightest. He is planning his own college work, and so long as he adheres to the college requirements, anything further in the choice of courses should be left to him. Let the advisor give his advice, leaving the student free to take it or leave it. After all he is going to hoe his own row. The Cornell...
Many years ago, Mr. Forbes gave in trust to the University two well-known paintings now in the Museum,--a large alter-piece by Benvenuto di Giovanni, "Madonna Enthroned with Saints," and a triptych by Niccolo Da Foligno, "Madonna Enthroned between Saint Sebastin and Saint Francis." In celebration of the Norton centenary he now gives both of these pictures outright to the Fogg Museum, one in memory of Charles Eliot Norton, his teacher, the other in memory of Richard Norton, son of Professor Norton and friend of Mr. Forbes...
...attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although monotone...
Bernarr Macfadden was christened Bernard A. He dropped the final "D" from his first name because "Bernarr," unusual, catches the curiosity of readers such as Dean Slade Miles. Many public folk, particularly actresses, alter names thus, on the theory that they stick easier in the public mind...