Word: harrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...
Perhaps it is wrong to wish that Ox-onians should prepare at Eton or Cantabridgians at Harrow and yet the singleness of purpose attained is to be desired. Under the present modus operandi one prepares at Oscaloosa High, aims for Harvard, and goes to Georgia Tech,--a diversion of purpose hardly a credit to a student's ambition. While the interchange of educational parts made possible by College Board Examinations is a happy convenience, it has its cultural limitations. It will be far nobler when the man who prepares at Oscaloosa High either secures a Harvard degree or none...
...There are in the U. S. no twin peaks of secondary education like Eton and Harrow, whereon hang all the pedagogical law and whose masters are the prophets. There has been no legendary "Arnold of Rugby" or "Sanderson of Oundle"* in the U. S. nor will there be. So many of our larger secondary schools were founded contemporaneously, and they soon multiplied so rapidly that though each school developed along its own lines, the special character of none had time to impress itself upon the public mind as a national institution before the coming of the public high school system...
Meantime, over in Macon County, a certain Farmer-Legislator, J. W. Butler, simple and unassuming, toiled in his fields with plow and harrow, not greatly concerned that the bill into which he had written the faith of his fathers had been seized upon as the classic foe of intellectual freedom...
...wife of Cyril Maude, smart British comedian; at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, after a long illness. Sir William S. Gilbert, collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in light opera, sacrificed his life in 1911, when 75 years old, in rescuing her from drowning in a lake on his estate at Harrow. Mr. Maude's most recent U.S. engagement was in Aren...