Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Custom of Board Walks...
...custom of laying down board walks during the winter season was half a century old. It was instituted by the Corporation in 1880 largely because of student agitation and of the editorial policies of the CRIMSON and its progenitor, the Magenta, whose columns for seven years warmly espoused the movement for plank walks...
...will shuffle into Brooks House Monday night at 7.30 o'clock to hear the heads of the various undergraduate organizations deliver eloquent orations, intermingled with the time-honored jokes of the occasion, on the many benefits accruing to the yearlings from participation in the speakers' specific activities. Following a custom sanctified by 300 classes of Harvard men, the speakers will mildly insult the newcomers, deliver a modicum of advice, and partake of light refreshments...
Mostly the Italian exhibits showed Ethiopians snapped in acts every explorer of the Empire knows to be sanctified by savage custom, namely in the words of Baron Aloisi...
...Moscow these many months Mr. Bullitt has been the one envoy of a capitalist power who fraternized with Soviet folk of every sort. He could often be seen at parties with a Red ballerina, an immemorial Russian custom. Agents of the Soviet tourist bureau, Russian concert singers and Big Reds of all sorts have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs...