Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture in which the President will appear tells the story of a poor country boy-the hero and everything. This lad, it seems, has been impoverished largely as the result of bad roads. He wins a scholarship by writing an essay on the subject of good roads. Naturally, he comes to Washington to have the President present him with the scholarship. The natural consequence is. the bright young lad returns to his home with a civil engineer's degree and devotes his life to making the country a finer and safer place to ride...
...first line players. Allowing three days for practice, the Open Championship consumed nine days. Restriction of the entry privilege will cut down the long qualifying period. The P. G. A. has ruled that only those on the eligibility lists of the U. S. Golf Association will be permitted to essay qualification...
...Fabric of Thought" includes three essays, which are called respectively, "Abracadabra: The Riddle of the Sphinx--An Inspiration": "Bubbles: The Riddle of Life--A Study: and "Gossamer: The Riddle of the Future--A Fancy". These are highly fantastic titles, but no more so than the subject matter warrants. One is forced to read several chapters before one is convinced that the whole thing is not a great, super-developed hoax, and from then on, the utmost concentration is required to follow the writer's logic at all. The first essay consists of a most elaborate and painstaking demonstration...
...impressed with his earnestness and industry, if not absolutely convinced of his soundness. To discuss lightly the probability of the case is to be flippant, when one regards the mountain of material with which Mr. Ennis bulwarks his position. And when he passes from the philology of the first essay, to philosophy, economics and metaphysics in the second, and to even higher flights, analyzing fancy and education, in the third, the layman is likely to feel even more at a loss. But, in his introduction, Mr. Ennis, says that the essays "are not scientific treatises; they are outlines of ideas...
Five o'clock this afternoon is also the closing hour for handing in theses for the $500 David A. Wells prize, which is awarded for the best essay on some phase of economics...