Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed by the great fire in Peking in 1900 when the allied troops captured the city, but some 286 volumes of the original set have been discovered, and are new scattered throughout the world...
...choice of a new Harvard President is bound to hold the interest of every member of the University during the next month or two. Obviously undergraduate opinion on the men best fitted for the Presidency cannot be well enough informed to be taken seriously. Perhaps it is presumptuous for undergraduates to make even general suggestions. What is said here will scarcely help the Corporation to find a worthy successor to President Lowell. It is said as the expression of a strong feeling among a number of undergraduates about the sort of man whom they would like...
Visibly ill of body and nerve. "Jimmy" Walker boarded the Europe-bound S. S. Conte Grande, locked himself away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore...
While the English language is in an eternal state of change, and is dependent on factors which prevent hide-bound grammatical rules from being constantly applicable, one cannot refrain from taking issue with the radical principles which Miss Center announces as those of her organization, the National Council of Teachers of English. Miss Center would let down the grammatical bars, allowing many colloquialisms which are considered bad usage; she would make it the function of English teachers to "integrate and direct the forces and trends in contemporary American life" by teaching pupils how to listen to radios, how to read...
...this season of the year that the Vagabond first feels cramped and unhappy, feels a nostalgia which will completely overcome him late in February when there is no Yale game, no Christmas recess to break an unending monotony. When he thinks of snow covered firs, lakes bound in dark green shimmering ice, among the low rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl...