Word: fountained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...
Picture for yourself the dapper voyager anxiously waiting for the soft purr of the R-101 to come out of the inky darkness. At hand a copious supply of cigarettes, wrist watches, fountain pens, and . . . but the list of endorsed merchandise is too long. Already the Vagabond could visualize the welcoming parade, the lecture dates at woman's clubs, his photograph in every room in Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the fan mail from Radcliffe. And he could hear the sighs of debutantes make soft music in his ears. What a night of nights...
...studying with a football in their hands, he forgot that the idea was not new. Coach Laval also probably did not realize that the fundamental idea of his cure for fumbling has long been in practice right here in Cambridge. For years, Harvard students have been juggling books and fountain pens, as they made their increasingly procarious way about the streets radiating from Harvard Square. Of course as Mr. Laval will no doubt find out for himself in relation to football-this constant living with books did not eliminate all scholastic fumbling, but it probably did promote a greater familiarity...
...Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...