Word: crisped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, the suave and efficient Sir Eric* received tidings which foreshadowed a modicum of English recreation amid the Swiss calm of Geneva. From Viscount Cecil of Chelwood came a crisp cheque for ?1000, with the suggestion that ?500 be allotted for tennis courts at the disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
...flowed the choicest hours of college. Here were the dormitories and club-houses, here were the college papers and magazines, here were the clubs of all kinds, and some of the athletic buildings. Such a mixture of work and fun I sensed that the breeze felt crisp and joyful with youth. This was a good part of Harvard I knew, but where was Harvard? In the days that followed I passed through the yard, found it a larger and more handsome place than I had been led to expect; I entered many famous buildings; I sat in the Stadium...
Sirs: Because TIME records all the news each week and at the same time manages to do usual so in a crisp, lucid manner without the usual dry-as-dust solemnity, I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone as the best magazine on the stands today...
...stared at the wallpaper of their bedrooms. "What," they thought sleepily, "was going to happen today?". With a start they remembered that it was the day for Mayor Nelson's paper, hurried into their clothes and downstairs to where the Sunday paper waited with its many crisp, exciting layers, like a pile of griddle cakes, beside their coffee cups. With what a sinking of the heart they crackled through those layers. Why, except for an extra page about religion, and the fact that there was no "immorality" on the front page (all crime news was segregated in an inside...