Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soldier-philosopher, nearer to the horrors than any of us, sees the war as the averter of evil. Good it may bring; but that is speculative. Ill it has prevented; of that, as he writes in his trench with death and devastation around him, he feels assured...
...yesterday's practice Coach Donovan took charge of all the runners, sending them at an easy jog around the Stadium fence. The jumpers and weight-throwers were given a workout in the baseball cage under the direction of Coach Farrell. This division of the coaching staff will be followed daily for the present. As soon as the laying of the board track, which is now under way, has been completed, all the runners will practice there...
...useful not merely for the contribution they make to the intellectual life of the public surrounding our colleges. The institutions themselves stand to gain by building up such a "department of the exterior." The deeper root the colleges take in the actual life and environment of the people around them the more healthy their own life as academies is bound to become. And the contribution is sometimes specific as well as general. In one New England college the course of lectures on ethical problems which a professor arranged for a series of Sunday night meetings proved so popular both among...
Word has been passed around that Broadway will be cleared of subway debris within the next three weeks. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. But will the average New Yorker recognize his most famous thoroughfare again after such a sudden transformation by elimination of the mining-camp excavations, the derricks and littered side-walks? Years have now elapsed since the city's streets have been in anything like normal condition, although originally we were assured that the "cut-and-cover" method of excavation would leave scarcely a scar on their fair surface. We have grown accustomed to chaos...
...Economic, political, and intellectual developments combined to make the old regime impossible," Dr. Lord said "but the autocrats in power, or rather the bureaucrats around them, refused to make any concessions to the lower classes. When the revolution did come, however, the government collapsed in a most shameful way. It was obnoxious to the whole country and in spite of the awful conditions at present, practically no one is willing to have the autocracy again...