Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the prominent Republicans who have been invited to speak before the club is Vice President Charles G. Dawes, who may come here next month to discuss the G. O. P. platform...
Thirteen such months give 364 days. But there are 365.242 days in each year. The 13th month and the extra day and a fraction are disposed of in this wise: The month is inserted in the calendar between June and July and called Sol, because during it would come the summer solstice. The full extra day would come at the end of the year and be called International Day, Dec. 29 or Jan. 0. There remains practically a quarter day, which every four years could be counted an accumulated full day. This would be inserted between June...
...education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation, not a makeshift until he or she studies law or goes into business or accumulates a trousseau, is his belief...
...soap bubble, and that's the most romantic thing I can think of. ... You see it drifting into all sorts of dangers and just missing them, till it seems an absolute marvel it can last so long. The whole romance of it is that you know it must come to grief.' " The Crownes begin to come to grief when Tilli Van Tuyl persuades Norman to produce his play The Seven Dawns...
...appreciate most the book-reviewer's account of the football game. His attitude is what all men who are civilized come to. Can we name the players? Not we. We sit in the Stadium with our minds higher in the clouds than the ever present airplane, our thoughts richly speculative. The article says, for example, "In a moment of thrilling suspense the ball was hurled down the field and the catcher let it slip from his hands. Here was a situation. . . The coach stood up on the side lines and with a refreshingly unsentimentalized characterization, told the player...