Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Invitations have been sent out to 75 high schools, and the complete list of entries will be announced late this week. The competing schools will be divided into two classes A and B according to the established custom of the meet, the first including the schools where track is a well developed sport and the second comprising those which have not yet built up the sport to any great extent...
...that wonder worker, he had him brought before him and after he had tried him, they took him and crucified him according to their ancestral custom...
...precincts of a dusty pedagogy during 27 years. It has a large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity...
Over in Irontown ("Arntown") where the teamsters are working, the villagers have their annual religious debauch - a revival. Following local custom, Abner and his mates engage female partners for the whole series of meetings. One night, during a lull in the hysteria, one Tug Beavers temporizes about going to the mourners' bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing...
...teaching out of them become burdensome. At young ladies' seminaries and colleges, undergraduates then have dreams and ideas more mature than the oldest wight on earth, and their greying mistresses are stirred by impulses of an age with the buds outside the window. Wherefore an old pagan custom is then revived, its original nature made innocent by thousands of springs. The Maypole is erected. Virgins dance in white fluttering things. A Queen of the May or of Beauty is crowned with a garland. Or a play of long ago is acted out in some bower where...