Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of any literature. The poetic renaissance called her best faculties into play, and she used them with striking success from the time when her memorable--and triumphant--quarrel with the mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel for the immense energy Miss Lowell devoted to the cause. It is good to learn that her patronage...
...Chicago, Ill...
...nothing to the president, professors and tutors of Harvard College in office from 1810 to 1814." Of larger interest was a note from Samuel Atkins Eliot, later Harvard's treasurer, apologizing for delay in some Bicentenary task because his 2-year-old son was seriously ill. Said James Bryant Conant: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated 40-year (1869-1909) administration Harvard blossomed into a great University and the whole tradition of higher education was changed, Harvardmen stamped, cheered, roared...
...Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. While her attack of influenza was putting her on the front page, My Day continued to appear as usual in the feature section. On the clay General Johnson's truncated column went to United's clients, Columnist Roosevelt reported: "Everyone should be a little ill now and then in order to be reminded how very kind and thoughtful the rest of the world is to those of us who fall by the wayside. . . . I have just been asked what flavor I would like in gelatine. . . . Not having eaten anything but liquids since Sunday, makes...
...freedom to do as one pleases results in enormous waste; much that is done is misdirected, much is merely stupid, some little works ill on the community at large but even this is usually borne with tolerance. In greeting the latest addition to Harvard's ranks the spokesmen for the University were not considering these abuses of freedom. They spoke in feeling tones of the waste involved, not in doing as one pleased, but in not doing at all--in loafing through college, accomplishing nothing beyond satisfying the few requirements asked by the Dean's office at midyears...