Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present no less than 15,000,000 Britons of the wage earning class are "covered" by ill-health, unemployment, accident, old age, or life insurance imposed or furnished by the State. Each week more than 1,250,000 old age pensions are paid -this in the face of a national budgetary deficit exceeding $830,000,000 for the past twelvemonth...
Pale, sad, oval face...
Flying in the face of Providence, and disregarding the combination of Friday the 13th, Boat 13 was the first shell to take the water. Three University eights, one 150-pound boat, and a Freshman crew comprised the fleet that paddled up and down for a brief spin. The seatings of the crews were all chosen entirely by chance...
Songs and slips on the banana peel are well managed in: Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Good News, Funny Face...
...business-at various sessions, many held simultaneously; listened to President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale, explain that "the only way to get low railroad rates is to attract new capital"; heard Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, of Princeton, Poland's financial savior, warn that it is time to face the probability of currency chaos caused by discovery of synthetic gold; heard Professor William Bennett Munro, of Harvard, urge science in politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor...