Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cubit is the distance from a man's elbow to the tip of his ringers and a span is the span of the hand or approximately one half of a cubit. These units of measurement are of course variable as the size of the person doing the measuring...
...make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...proved to the hilt with statistics that colonies are not a paying proposition." Does Professor Langer or anybody else suppose that colonies would be sought, and when acquired, maintained, if they were NOT paying propositions? Does anybody hang on to a hot potato, if it is burning his hand? Nations DO get something, and enough, from their colonies, so that they will hang on to them. Somebody gets the gold, or somebody gets the trade, or somebody gets the glory, or somebody gets a good naval base, etc.; and generally, while a select few pocket the pickings, we know...
...hall a great fire is blazing and spitting. Around it are seated a group of knights, with their swords still at their sides in a manner improper for a banquet. In their center, holding a silver goblet of wine in his hand is His Majesty, King Henry II of England. He is a rough, squarely-built man, with a red face attached to the rest of his body by a neck that resembles that of a bull. His eyes are large, and tonight a veritable fire seems to come from them. As he begins to speak, in a loud, rough...
Feeling that after all literary men should stick together, the editors of the CRIMSON extended more than the right hand of friendship last night when they lent the Lampoon a 50 pound punch bowl to help the funnymen celebrate their 60th anniversary. Not rich enough to rent one, Lampy at long last prevailed on the CRIMSON men to lend them the sacred punch bowl which has adorned the Plympton Street Sanctum these many years...