Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...
...difficult to comment editorially on the words of Gaspar G. Bacon, president of the Massachusetts Senate, to the Freshman Class last night. What he said has been said before, but perhaps, in the eighteenth century measure of success, neither so well nor so timely. Fully aware of the fact that all freshmen classes the country over are being snowed under with blizzards of advice, he spoke briefly and on a topic about which his public service has given him a rounded knowledge...
...public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
...first time, a U. S. Open was broadcast hole by hole. A Columbia announcer sat at a portable short-wave microphone back of the eighteenth tee and sent off reports brought to him by spry Boy Scouts...
...Said Golfer Jones's father when told his son was coming to the eighteenth with a chance for a 67: "I don't think I'll go out. I wouldn't be able to see anything anyway." Said Bobby Jones on being presented with the medal: "I've never played anywhere where the gallery was so considerate in getting...