Word: figment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figment of the imaginations of other newspapermen. At a White House press conference last month, the correspondents sought to pry from the President substantiation for a rumor that Secretary Kellogg was to resign, that Mr. Hoover would succeed him. Nettled by insistent insinuations, the President answered sharply that Mr. Kellogg was not resigning and that, in any case, Mr. Hoover would not succeed him. Pining for a sensation, the correspondents rushed off and filled the press for days with one of their favorite words? "slap." The President, they reiterated, had "slapped at" Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The President at first...
This this group is no figment of the imagination the figures of every higher educational institution in the country will testify. It represents a phase in the development of American nationality peculiar to the present era. It demands college wholesale without knowing what college means and without being able to reap the rewards of college. The phase is temporary but it is real. In order to carry the college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior...
...proselyting has gone among college athletes may be inferred from the attention paid in recent discussions to students who have moved from one college to another and who are designated by the question-begging name of "tramp athletes." Offhand a reasonable man might believe a tramp athlete the figment of a morbid imagination. He who hires a university athlete to come from another college must pay the way of that athlete for one year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year...