Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, the University has been almost fastidious in providing for the safety of its proteges. Two possible solutions occur to the harassed student--either a sharpshooting squadron should be organized to shoot down the menacing icicles in the dead of night, or else, as a final desperate measure, University gutters should be equipped with defrosters...
...dress.* Washington will miss their parties. The main reason he wanted to get back to his private practice was to make some more money before he got too old.† Last summer, having passed 68, he swore that this year would be his last in harness but the final decision was not reached quite as planned...
...himself; he completed twelve out of 20 passes for a gain of 117 yards, returned five punts for a gain of 73 yards, ran with the ball 14 times for a gain of 108 yards, kicked three points after touchdown, remained in the game until three minutes before the final whistle. Texas Christian won the game...
...final irony of Coolidge's life was that he began to catch up on his times only when he was out of office. Retired to Northampton, turning out his autobiography at $5 a word and a short syndicated column at $3.25 a word, brooding disgustedly over Hoover's shortcomings, watching his gilt-edged investments sink lower & lower, Coolidge at last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope...
Every so often a student announces the startling fact that European students have no examinations until the end of their final year, and laments the fact that this admirable idea is not carried out at McGill. This surprising revelation becomes less surprising, and in fact unspeakably tedious, after the umpteenth repetition...