Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facing their first important college examinations, others are puzzling over the sort of questions the hitherto unknown professor is likely to ask and the sort of answers the even less known reader is likely to enjoy; meanwhile the Library is uncovering the thumbed and torn papers of years gone...
...announcement that the University is to have a new Freshman dormitory, given by Mr. and Mrs. George A. McKinlock of Chicago in memory of George A. McKinlock Jr. '16, who was killed in the war; a study of occupations into which Harvard men have gone after graduation; a detailed analysis of the Harvard system of general examinations for graduation and of the tutorial system; and a plea for students to enter college at an earlier age than is now customary, were features of the annual report of President Lowell to the Board of Overseers, made public last night...
...services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death in the same cause. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded 40,000 francs for his sacrifice, and has paid the award to his widow...
...American as she is spoke" has gradually become a different language from the "English wot the Tommies speak", and together the have taken up hundreds of slang expression in rebellion against literary English. This tendency has gone so far that when the novel "Babbitt" was introduced to England it was found necessary to print a glossary of "Americanisms" in the back; and recently a book on "The American Language" was published by Henry Louis Mencken, giving a host of slang terms that have come into use in this country. But it is to the advantage of everyone from American cabdriver...
...been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter at Valley Forge are gone for all time; but every great event taking place now or hereafter will be preserved for succeeding generations exactly as it happened. Great masterpieces of literature, coming upon the screen are securing for themselves a clientele which the printed word has never given them. In our own neighborhoods...