Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, of all 21 parties in the late Reichstag, the Communist Party is one of the few which is expected to gain seats in May. It formerly had only 15 out of 459. But in the last year many middle-of-the-road voters are said to have gone sharply to the reactionary right or Communistic left...
...First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
...England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster in the American University than at Oxford or Cambridge...
...past few years Crimson rooters lining the banks of the Thames in June have been able to hum "Here come the dog-gone Elis" to no exulting strains of victory. Sharp disappointment has led to sharper criticism, with the result that pessimism has been the prevailing attitude toward the "crew situation". In a measure the work of candidates and coaches must necessarily suffer in such an atmosphere. But with the arrival of Coach Stevens and his staff there seems to have occurred a definite reversal...
...Tower of Babel was something more than the first sky-scraper. It has gone down to posterity an everlasting symbol of the fatal consequences of idiom...