Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this case. Probably the only effective solution will be the gradual development of a state of opinion among instructors and students alike which will refuse to tolerate the patronage of these institutions. Until this happy condition is brought to pass, the prosperity of tutoring schools will remain a pretty fair barometer of in how far Harvard is a university in the truest sense of the term, and in how far it is a factory for drilling automatons into a state of mechanical perfection sufficient to pass the factory's regular inspection tests...
Undergraduates of American colleges have been offered prizes amounting to one thousand dollars, for the most original and humorous treatments of subjects connected with college life submitted to Vanity Fair, 19 West 44th Street. New York, before February 1, 1926. Three prizes will be awarded, the first of 500 dollars, the second of 300, and the third...
...announcement of the offer, in the December number of Vanity Fair, explains the nature of the contributions desired: "We are not looking for solemnly serious treatises which might be submitted for a Ph.D. thesis." says the notice, "but for articles which will evoke laughter from our readers, whether undergraduate or alumni...
...some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
...official forecast for today, according to the aforementioned establishment, is "Fair, with little change in temperature; moderate west winds...