Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth, sporting on the green sward, often with the boon of families, and partaking of such rare Falernian as Cambridge still has to offer. Thus from every point of view the return of Harvard's classes for their twenty-fifty is a boon to the University, and a glad hand goes out his week to extend a hearty welcome...
...July 10 the invaders will have one of their strongest teams on hand. Featured on it are A. G. K. Brown, of Cambridge, a ranking Olympic runner up to 880 yards. Also there are E. B. Tisdale, of Oxford, an outstanding miller, F. R. Webster, a 13-foot pole vaulter, and Ali Irfan, a 49-foot shot putter...
With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
...graduated in 1914. One difference there is, and that a major one. You are already aware of the stresses and strains present in Europe and those which have been set up by induction in the United States. To the members of the class of 1914, on the other hand, the situation you regard as usual came with all the blackness and suddenness of a tropical storm. In June there was one climate of opinion and by September there was another; and with each succeeding month the atmosphere became more electric, the storms more frequent and more violent. Members...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...