Word: golden
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Archbishop Soderblom is the youngest man ever chosen archbishop in his native country. The crosier, the carved golden cross which he carried in Appleton Chapel on Sunday is the symbol of his office. The primate is the sixty-fifth archbishop of Upsala to have born this crosier, which has been handed down to each succeeding archbishop since...
...weather was, of course, execrable. It was hard on the victors, who had hoped to see their team score a clean-cut and even more decisive victory. It was hard on the vainquished, who had hoped to see their new defense stop the Yale attack and turn some golden opportunity into a chance for a score. It was trying for the spectators. But it is another tribute to Yale and to Harvard that, under such circumstances, such a game should have been possible--another game of cleanest rivalry and finest sportsmanship...
There is no longer any question how to treat a goose that lays golden eggs: don't starve it; don't cut off its neck...
...case of a goose that might lay golden eggs, but doesn't, is less susceptible of deft solution. The railways are a whole flock of such geese. During the War they were seized and peremptorily ordered to lay twice a day. They could have as much food as they desired, but they might not leave the nest. And when the War was passed, this regimen had seriously impaired both the morale and the constitutions of the geese. The geese and the gooseherds cried for normalcy...
...treatment was devised, dubbed the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Still the geese fail to produce their golden fruit. There is a chorus of new proposals. Senator Cummins of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and others of his group favor consolidation. They say in effect: " Let us put all the geese into half a dozen large goosepens. Then those less inclined to lay will emulate those more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting...