Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devoutly to be wished. To die--to sleep...
...Between receipt of an associate professorship and retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee in his Department ceases to teach prior to retirement, the University will have been unnecessarily damaged.... But the present policy results in automatic dismissal of actual teachers of known value in favor of hypothetical teachers of unknowable value. Surely it is possible to frame a policy less blind and accidental...
Last week no less forceful a finger than Arturo Toscanini's reminded U. S. concertgoers of Composer Strong. Over his weekly NBC broadcast Toscanini played a strong composition called Die Nacht ("Night"). Listeners were not surprised by its musty romanticism, its able orchestration, which recalled the period of Wagner, Brahms and Schumann. But they were surprised to hear that musty U. S. Romantic Strong was still alive...
With his mania for perfection in fundamentals, his devoted scouting corps (mostly former pupils who would still die for dear old Neyland) and the Southeastern Conference rules that permit subsidized players, The Major has been able to mobilize an increasingly formidable squad each year. This year's is probably his best...
...want to die...