Word: clan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...
...seeks inevitably to rationalize about it. What is it that inspires middle-aged men to return at considerable expense of time, money and dignity, in order to manifest clan loyalty in various and curious manners? And what is this clan loyalty, to an institution of the past, more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
...there is anything that guides a vagabond, and this hypothesis may easily be challenged, it is his instinct. If he allowed his conscious self to act as rudder, he would no longer be a vagabond, and as a self-respecting member of the clan myself, I feel that that would be a catastrophe. All of which suggests one reason why I am going to Emerson J at 9 o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Prescott talk in Education B on instincts...
...find the wonderful city which the lineal descendant of a proud clan that once ruled a Maya province reported to Mr. Gann. But with fair luck we hope to return to the United States with some worth-while contribution to modern knowledge of this old world in the New World, this civilization that had already passed its splendid prime when Columbus and Cortez came...
Defensively, the Crimson team is very strong, but the absence of punch in the forward line has prevented the University eleven from outscoring its rivals. In the five games played to date, the Crimson has scored only a total of four goals, their single victory being over the Clan Lindsay team in the opening game...