Word: gem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead hand of endowment has again brought to the fore the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution. To some thirty or forty men, that competition means a chance to recite some recognized literary gem in hopes of winning a cash prize. To all others who pay any attention to it, the Lee Wade and Boylston competition represents a revival of the old jade of elocution, strangely out of place in a modern college...
...that only one of them tipped her a dollar. We are sorry that Kay's faith has been shattered; but all great spiritual experiences come only at a high cost. And this one has given the world something that has beauty, a beauty that burns with a hard, gem-like flame. Its perfection is marred by only one thing; we wish to God that the Record would get a better ghost writer...
...pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition for a pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab. Sunny Jim has been a confused and bewildered man since he entered office, and on this occasion he quite lost his head and reverted to his natural impulses...
Scandinavia, the Gem of the Baltic...
...those who have cried out that the optimism and idealism which once graced this land have vanished into shadowy memories, the farewell declaration of Cord Hull will come as manna in a barren country. On leaving American shores for Uruguay, gem of South America, he stated that "common interests, similar problems, and mutual devotion to the freedom offered by democratic forms of government support us as we approach the problems" of the Pan-American Conference--in short, the old formula which spawns every year a new school of invincible pow-wows...