Word: hew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China-then comrades, I will bow my head in shame, and you shall hew...
...born in Massachusetts, has molded his frontierswoman with all the solidity and heavy figure of a muscular St. Gauden's French peasant. She strides forward with breasts uptilted, an ax in her hand, a babe on her hip. It is apparent that she is about to hew something. She won place in the balloting in Manhattan...
...there he also avouched his cures to the people. And there gathered themselves to him one hundred and fifty slaves, and of the populace, a crowd. But when they saw his power, which could accomplish everything he would by word, they urged him that he enter the city and hew down the Roman soldiers and Pilate and rule over us. But when knowledge of this came to the Jewish leaders, they gathered together with the High Priest and spake, 'We are powerless and too weak to withstand the Romans ... we will go tell Pilate what we have heard...
...vital problem of transition between school and college still bulks large. Despite occasional flashes in the plan of reform, no vigorous constructive action has ameliorated the present crying need. Now is the time to hew out some new policy with which to deal with the inrush of next fall's Freshmen who may otherwise receive the usual laissez faire reception...
...critic. The Pierian certainly holds a very high place among college orchestras. What though its programmes be drawn from familiar restaurant repertory? This is not likely to be objectionable to any but a sophisticated taste and restaurant music is usually decidedly pleasing. The Orchestra furthermore has had to hew its own way, fighting along with no help from the Music Department and selecting its conductors from its own ranks. Its programmes, its aims and its excellence are decidedly not those of a symphony orchestra and there is no reason why they should be. The Pierian has its own sphere...