Word: bed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students of Harvard who found themselves temporarily bed less and homeless this year in Cambridge have entered with the eagerness for truth shown by the pupils of Abelard., or by Colonel George Lyon, 73-years of age, who has returned as a graduate student to Harvard, intending "to study as long as he lives," there will not be too many men going to college or university; that is, if a sufficient number of Abelards can be found to teach them. --The New York Times...
With these men instructing you in proper principles--then, you yourself exercising your own judgment in handling transactions and solving problems as they arose in your daily work--do you get the idea? You would be acquiring experience right along with the bed rock fundamentals of the profession...
...when you have completed your LaSalle work, you can truthfully say that you are not only a thoroly trained man, but an experienced man--you know the bed-rock principles and you have used them all--they are familiar tools in your hands...
...author swings her novel into an absorbing story, centering about the cause of a small blue circle of light which, on the first night of his entrance into the Campbell household, appeared before the new secretary, Renshaw, "a plain citizen; but a fairly intelligent one," as he lay in bed...
...educational system which the new discoveries seem bound to bring about. Many a youth with more ingenuity than love of knowledge has spent sundry pleasant hours in figuring out how he might listen to his nine o'clock lecture without the uncomfortable concomitant of getting out of bed. But with "directed", untapable wireless an actual fact, the educational importance of Big Bens and roommates notebooks is certain ere long to be reduced to nil. Lectures will soon be given by the Professor between his-grapefruit and his omelette, with perhaps a humorous aside while his wife is buttering the toast...