Word: anew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kittredge's fame has spread in the words of his hero, Beowulf, "wide through all the land." Wherever scholars are gathered in the study of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Beowulf, wherever medieval romances, English and Scottish ballads are delighting students anew there will be felt the influence of George Lyman Kittredge...
...century later the college had lost almost everything but its past. The Civil War stripped it of students, burned its buildings. Starting anew after the war, it struggled along until 1881 before closing its doors once more, this time for seven years. The State lent a hand in its reopening, took it over in 1906. By 1918, when women students were first admitted, the college of Jefferson and Marshall was little more than a third-rate normal school, with 131 students...
Elegant in double-breasted blue coat and dove-grey trousers, a gentleman renowned for candor descended on Washington last week to sing anew an old song. Since 1918, when he was Commander of the A. E. F. Air Force, General William ("Billy") Mitchell has been U. S. military aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This...
...smile, turned, and with new hope began to search for a way out of its slough of despond. Now that months have passed and the goal does not yet seem to be near, the advocates of laissez-faire and of ancient conservatism again raise their hoary heads and begin anew their piping complaints. Of late, however, amid the anvil chorus of cheerfully pessimistic second-guessers, an able voice has been raised in support of the Administration...
...with all of each town's choirs, orchestras and clergymen massed on the platform. They heard all these peal out "I Love to Tell the Story." In the midst of each assemblage they saw a little band of consecrated folk stand up to chant: "Now we dedicate ourselves anew to this high service, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength...