Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget. During a period of stress which has not always been kind to hallowed institutions, that dignity has been an invaluable buttress to the Supreme Court. Naturally, to such a character, the necessity for "bowing to the inevitable" can be recognized only with the deepest reluctance, a reluctance bound to be shared by his fellow citizens. But consolation is found in the conviction that Justice Holmes, whatever physical infirmities age may bring, still remains in heart and spirit, as Chief Justice Hughes has said, "invincibly young...
...advantages of scrapping the Spring sessions have been too often enumerated to bear repetition. The most important consideration in this case is that such a move would fall in line with the new retrenchment policy, which favors informality rather than gate receipts. A player will not feel in duty bound to attend Spring practice to the exclusion of other activities which he might prefer at that season. Participation, if any, should be entirely voluntary; and to this end, we move that Yale follow Harvard in abolishing formal Spring practice. -Yale News
...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
...historically-minded reader who thumbs through the bound volumes of old newspapers in any big public library will generally find issues of a century or more ago in good condition. As he passes the 18705, when woodpulp began to replace costly rag paper, the pages turn yellow and brittle. Papers of the Spanish American War period will crumble at a touch, for then pulp print was at its worst. Later volumes are in fairly good state of preservation but they, too, will gradually disintegrate with...
...York Times prints 250 copies per day of its regular edition on rag paper for $100 per year for subscribers. The New York Public Library coats with thin Japan tissue every page of every paper in its files published since 1916. The Library of Congress keeps its 80,000 bound volumes in a room at 70° temperature and 40% humidity. Suggestion by Dr. Buck: photograph news pages in reduced facsimile on special long-lasting paper...