Word: foes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with an attack upon the deum machinae of the university. In his opinion this type of spirit is ordained by its very being to wander through life, entering no fixed abode, enjoying perhaps the feel of a book, the form of a thought, the swing of a measure. A foe of the heaviness in living, it strolls on, devoted to its dreams, while progress eludes it as it eludes progress...
Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...
...outlined a fortnight ago by Premier Baldwin (TIME, Aug. 3). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who originally was against the program, was forced to defend the Government's naval policy, and a bad time he had. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) reproached him for "arming when no foe threatened and thereby prejudicing the prospects of world peace...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...evening was cool, and in the morning the train was in Chicago. Engines were changed in the railroad yards, and the train sped on over the Chicago & Northwestern tracks to St. Paul. The route led through Wisconsin and Senator Lenroot, foe of LaFollette, sat in the observation car with the President, where his constituents might see them. It was a hot, sticky day. Towards evening, the train pulled into St. Paul. In all the 30 hours, the President made not a single rear-platform speech. But he ate three steaks...