Word: errand
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...physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything, the lies of the Greeks, the embezzlement of his lieutenants, physical sufferings. He sold his English Estates. Not for Argive cowards, but for Liberty, he fought...
...development of the tutorial system and the House Plan is retarded by needlessly occupying 200 students with clerical work, errand running and dishwashing for three hours a day. And from the standpoint of the University, the work done by students under the Plan is superfluous. For despite protestations by department heads and House masters that work under the Plan is useful, the fact remains that the temporary jobs have never existed before, and will never exist again if the Plan is discontinued...
...midst of opening Rutgers University and its affiliate New Jersey College for Women, Dr. Robert Clarkson Clothier hurried off on a sorry errand. At Lake Placid, N. Y. had disappeared Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, 56, who retired as dean of New Jersey College for Women last spring because of ill health. She had apparently been rowing. Her capsized boat was found in shore. Grapplers and a diver hunted for the body. Dr. Clothier joined in the hunt, issued statements, then hurried back to Rutgers...
...acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself be won over by Roth-stein's young ally, Cecilia. Then began months of confusing, exhausting work for Munck as Rothstein's errand boy while the great buildings went up. With the Lyceum ready to function Munck thought he could at last start doing a job he was fitted for, but he soon found he was nothing but a figurehead...
...coming English novelists, Norah James is not quite up but she seems to be coming. Her Sleeveless Errand (1929), a potent presentation of justifiable suicide, was suppressed by the London police. Even fundamentalist parsons, however, should find nothing to cavil at, much to approve, in Jealousy...