Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic teams, doing social service work, singing in the glee club--usually "just happen," and are the most fun that way. Until they get out of hand, they provide the balance necessary for a well-rounded education; and together, academics and social life make more than an idle aspiration of that legend above the Wigglesworth gate: "Enter to grow in wisdom...
...Central House in Boscobel, Wis. They were vowed to form an organization for the Lord's work. They could not think of a name for it, though, until Insurance Man Will D. Knights opened his Bible, read from Judges how the Lord had put a sword in the hand of his mighty warrior, Gideon. Paint Salesman Sam Hill and Shoe Salesman John H. Nicholson agreed that "The Gideons" would be their name...
This run was a comedy of ignorance. World wheat granaries were bulging with 5,300,000,000 bushels of grain, of which the U. S. held 3,500,000,000. Two and a half million tons of sugar were on hand, the U. S. beet and cane crop was estimated at 2,100,000 more and in overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop...
Last week the fifth international congress for the Unity of Science was held in the U. S. at Harvard University. Despite the war, delegates from nine nations were on hand...
Rimbaud was brought up by a tight-fisted mother who was open-handed only with her slaps. Until he was 15, she took him to school every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing verse, ran away to Paris. There the penniless poet, little more than a pretty-faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud...