Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average "editorial." The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely a "comic," loses a golden opportunity. Yale Alumni Weekly
Whence came these people, whom we call the Mayas? What was the catastrophe that wiped out the civilizations of their golden age so suddenly that no tradition of them was left among the savage tribes who inherited their territory? In what fashion did the immigrant Mayas retrieve a measure of ancient culture in a new land? When we enter their deserted cities we feel the poignantly tantalizing quality of the mystery that surrounds a magnificent ship discovered in mid-ocean with sails set, gear in order and not a soul on board...
...renger's optimistic, slightly "golden rule" philosophy of life was made known when he undertook to edit L'Art et la Vie, and later in a novel L'Effort. Mere "Effort" however did not suffice him long. His increasingly militant "golden rulism" found expression in the polemic daily, L'Action. That he holds no brief for mere crude babbitt attainment is clear to anyone who has read his L'Aristocratic Intellectuelle: "So long as a people do not grant to intellectual aristocracy its proper place, so long must their social system remain suspect...
Died. Andrew Latham Smith, 43, famed football coach at the University of California; at Philadelphia, of pulmonary ulcers. From 1920 to 1924 inclusive his "Golden Bears" lost no games. In 1904 he was All-American fullback (University of Pennsylvania...
...three modern tyrants knows the golden moment for severing these chains, perhaps history will rank him with the hero of old Greece. Otherwise they will only serve to delay the eventual arrival of a sound strong Democratic government. It is their privilege either to create newer and better republics, or to undo all that has gone before...