Word: canker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...
...Canker Stand...
...Bank (one of the "Big Five" banks); at Torquay, England. Onetime (1919-21) president of the Institute of Bankers, he was also a noted Greek scholar, having translated the Iliad* and other poems. Henry Bell, banker, wrote of him: For while we see Crowns drop from kingly heads, and canker Attack the hereditary tree, Yet there is left one Leaf to be At once a Poet and a Banker...
...that as it may, the serious-minded Harvard undergraduate will be grateful to The Dartmouth for pointing out this canker to him, and, even more, for prescribing its cure. He has only to understand the other extreme, and then to mix himself up with it. He would be amply justified in demanding a debate between the Advocate and the Varsity Club, or a joint meeting of the Poetry Society and the Student Council...
...this is the political Springtime and "receptive candidates," who were the buds of yesterday, must burst betimes into active bloom unless they wish to wither with a canker of disappointment in their hearts...