Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students who spend at least two months of the coming summer in some industrial or agricultural work, "The Nation" announces a prize essay contest, the winner of which is to receive $100. A second prize of $50 and third and fourth prizes of $25 and $15 respectively are also offered...
...pitching for tragedy. But that impulse cracks in the middle of the last act, and the playwright pastes on a happy ending, including love, faith and a wholesome dose of moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor balls...
...about the bursting buds, the gentle zephyrs the livelier iris on the burnished dove, etc, etc.--usually when March winds were still tossing hats gaily about the Yard. But no one can say more that these things are a delusion and a share, a trap for the unwary who essay forth coatless, trusting the tempered wind, for the baseball season has arrived. So this afternoon, the Vagabond will wander out toward Soldiers Field, admire in passing the blue of the river as it mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then, having arrived at the diamond, he will stretch...
William Searle Holdsworth, Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford, received the Ames Prize, awarded by the Faculty of Harvard Law School for "the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in English and published during the years...
Professor Munro's contribution is entitled "The Money Power in politics" and is a defense of that supposedly pernicious influence. "Revisiting a River, A Recipe for Happiness" and essay, by Professor Perry is the third of the articles...