Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your issue of October 30th carries more than two pages of correspondence anent the CRIMSON's editorial on the West Point game. It is rather surprising to note that these communications are unnimously condemnatory. Not one graduate voice is raised in support of the courageous expression of opinion by the young Cambridge editors. Possibly it is significant that all of the letters printed are from New York or Boston and from graduates of more than twenty years standing. Harvard alumni represent such a broad cross-section of the country that, to the university's lasting credit, a respectable minority party...
...Coney Island funpark, Reporter Earl Sparling of the New York World-Telegram interviewed police officers, learned the following anent the habits of New Yorkers in dealing with lost children...
Thanks many times for the highly interesting historical note anent the demise of the Anaconda Standard (TIME, July 27). Herewith some addenda which may be of interest...
...Anent your comment on the "Crown of Thorns" displayed in the New York Flower Show (TIME, March 30): There are several of these plants on this island and I am enclosing herewith a cutting from one of them growing in our garden. This particular shrub has been blooming almost continuously for the past six years. Botanically, the "Crown of Thorns" belongs to the Poinsettia family. There are at least two legends about this plant: 1 ) The wreath referred to in Matthew 27:29, was platted with cuttings from it: 2) it will not bloom if tended by wicked persons. From...
...Anent the use of grave stones for imposing stones in the March 2 issue of TIME, the reverse of this practice occurred in 1913, when the headstone of the grave of General Smith D. Atkins, for nearly half a century editor of the Freeport, Ill. Journal, was an imposing stone upon which the first forms composed by the General as an apprentice printer were imposed. At the request of the Editor and Publisher, I furnished a photograph of this head stone, showing the inscription, which was published in that magazine. In the comment, it was stated that the only other...