Word: errand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heaven. He will arrive in his airplane, land on top of his office building and descend in an elevator. Whether there will be a means of saving him the exertion of toddling from the elevator to his office door is not yet clear. But if he has an errand somewhere it will only be a matter of riding to the ground and slighting on the swiftly moving sidewalks...
...representative of the university is a gift from the Gods. There is much to say in favor of a strict merit system until a competition has been won by an unrepresentative personality. But too much is at stake to give a managership to a man that is the best errand...