Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Her permanent peace rests with Sears Ripley, a devoted, sensitive widower, who brings it to pass by being not only patient and understanding but sufficiently muscular to carry her up to bed when, heavy with their first child, she is on the point of wishing she were a mooncalf again...
The first of them is Albert Baird Cummins, venerable senex, first sent to the Senate in 1908 as a volcanic Progressive, now about as regular as any politician is likely to be in these days, a learned lawyer, devoted nowadays to judicious action.
Just before 1914 he had succeeded in creating a secret military organization The World War brought to him the opportunity of campaigning with these fanatically devoted troops against both Russian and Teutonic encroachment upon Poland. Eventually captured and imprisoned by the Germans at Magdeburg, he returned to Poland in 1918...
Once upon a time American news papers were journals of information, with an expression of opinion to be found on the editorial pages. Now they are journals of opinion, the opinion of their public, and their editorial pages are devoted to the spread of information. One of the perennial subjects...
Tomorrow's session will be devoted to a series of business meetings ending with a banquet at the Drake Hotel. The speakers will be John S. Miller '11, president of the Harvard Club of Chicago; William Thomas '73, C. C. Little '10, president of the University of Michigan; and President...