Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Describing the recent flight of G. H. Wilkins over the North Pole from Alaska to Spitzbergen as "the Elizabethan dream of a Northwest passage come true," Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer and member of the University faculty from 1904 to 1906 explained to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday several reasons for the importance of Wilkins' achievement...
...accompanied by a general forward looking by the entire group of preparatory school journalists. The college paper had not long dared the photographic supplement before the schoolboy found this innovation within the ability of his hand. To confirm the permanent aspect of the newspaper of the preparatory school has come that hallmark of respectability, the news service...
...that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted and she, apparently, suited him. At the end of the story, it is a comparatively safe guess that Dorrie will come to Manhattan, get her poems published and write a novel whose heroine is a dreamy little girl called Dawn Powell...
...then the Ph.D. degrees." But the four-year requirement is not inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon...
...Sunday papers reported snowstorms in the Eastern States; all Saturday it rained and there were no baseball games played. In general the world looked as if spring had not yet come. Today, however, the Pops Concerts begin at Symphony Hall and there is no more doubt about it--spring is here...