Word: fountained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State College, which had sent Mr. Hug forth-co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...
...attention to dress, complexion, repartee, new dance steps, light refreshment. The name which newspaper readers have sickened of seeing for several years, without fully understanding it, is thought to have originated in Washington or farther south, deriving from the species' propensity for tea, cakes and soda-fountain goodies...
...Critics and Faustophiles flocked to the performance, found it a travesty, to be sure, but not wholly irreverent. One of them regretted that Faust had not thought to use a fountain pen, that Mephistopheles had not thought of a monkey gland operation; commended, nevertheless, the Opera Society's enterprise; prophesied a profitable...
...surely to be included in the "one or two others." No philosopher of modern times was more keenly aware than he of the "internal nature" which philosophy must recognize and study. The recommendation is significant of the demand which our serious youth are making to come closer to the fountain head of life. It reflects the conclusion of the younger generation, that physical science cannot be everything. --Boston Transcript, April...
...bankrupt publication, the CRIMSON fears that any such move will but add to Lampie's already over heavy lead of debts. And it is against sound business principles to attempt the financially impossible. Yet there is no reason why some attempt should not made to restore to Harvard her fountain of folly. Therefore, any attempt to create a successor will receive all possible assistance from the CRIMSON and no doubt from the Advocate as well...