Word: backwash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Startling and incredible is the upcurving graph that indicates the increase in U. S. college enrollments since 1918. Beginning with a ripple of backwash from the War, it rolls, surges ever upward, froths to a peak in 1927. To many an oldster who went to college when colleges were smaller, less heterogeneous, this is a sorrowful thing. A profusion of academic degrees, to them, is a metabolistic agent, transforming incipient, able bricklayers into impotent lawyers. For oldsters came comfort last week...
...nine of the ten she had been so accustomed to her comfortable afternoon-a-week with Arthur that she had left off thinking it sin. Moreover Arthur, that elderly refreshment, was the reason she was able to be so good a wife to Ernest. Ernest had benefited by "the backwash," as it were, of her happiness with Arthur...
Score--Yale, 23; Harvard, 12. Touchdowns--Cruikshank, Lewis, Upton, Whiting 2. Field Goals--Ludium. Goals--Cruikshank. Referee--Blettsworthy. Umpire--Packletide. Linesmen--Bungg and Backwash. Time--12 minute quarters...
...post-war" theory, derived less from life than from fiction which showed the undergraduate wallowing drunkenly in the backwash of the late conflict, finds in him no protagonist. Neither is he of a mind with octogenarians who state in birthday interviews that the present generation ushers in the dawn of a new and marvelous day. He says merely that "intellectually and socially, we have not yet caught up with our own inventions and discoveries;" and belives that, all things considered, the "matter-of-fact acceptance" of the new world by the undergraduate promises well...
...Cardinal Hayes's plans to erect a home in the Bowery, Manhattan, for homeless men, The Commonweal, sophisticated Catholic weekly, last week reported: "There is no other part of the great metropolis which displays so much of poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry...