Word: delighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gulf of Mexico fishermen agree that schools of porpoises leaping usually indicate approaching heavy weather. Whether this is due to atmospheric conditions or to marine conditions, who can say? * Doubtless named after the famed fish pompano, southern epicures' delight and conceded one of the world's tastiest marine morsels...
...Author. Roy Floyd Dibble, a. gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...
Thus the young teachers at Harvard are either those who delight in pure pedantry or those who take sections that they may help themselves to live while they go through the mill of the doctorate. Some of the latter know something of what they are teaching. They are in the position of an undergraduate, concentrating in French, who spends so many hours a week teaching classes in French at his preparatory school. These are the men who are assisting in courses with big ideas unopened in minds where parcels of roots are being unwrapped and put on shelves...
...college upon the rugged, seldom cooperative soil of New England grew the heritage which is Harvard's respect for the responsibility of freedom. Perhaps that responsibility is gray to others. It cannot be gray to the Harvard student. The colors of accomplishment have long tinted the dulness with delight. This freedom--this responsible freedom is the distinguishing attribute of Harvard University. The Class of 1930 is now a vital functioning, accomplishing part of that university. It is for them to maintain their individual and united right to their heritage...
England brought her religious complexion out into the sunlight last week when the preliminary results of two questionnaires were announced. The ponderous "lower middle class," which historians delight in calling the backbone of the nation, voted 75% solidly for Christianity in the London Daily News poll. But the suave sophisticates, the dreamy litterateurs who read the Nation and Athenaeum (London weekly) leaned toward atheism, agnosticism...