Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...superfluous. All that I have said is evident to most children of ten upon first glancing over TIME. Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with one or two of your new readers. It is to drown their minority protest that I speak out for the old guard. RAYMOND MACAULAY TREVELIAN...
When the ball had again been in play for a few minutes Melland, the English captain made about the strongest bid for a score, when his try for a goal was stopped by the University goal-guard. A few moments later, the play shifted to the opposite end of the field and North in the place of Coombs made the Harvard goal on a pass from Wallace who substituted for Sayler. The final goal was also made by North on a pretty play from Reed to Gamache to North...
...Carmelite nuns were recently dragged from their convent by Mexican soldiers, marched to Mexico City and told that they were about to be distributed among the local brothels, there to be subjected to enforced prostitution. They were released when a bribe of 100 pesos ($50) was accepted by their guard...
...Developed for smallpox by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). In all vaccinations the patient is deliberately given a mild attack of the particular disease he wants to guard against. The blood then develops certain properties which kill off the attacks of that disease, except in the very greatest concentrations...