Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyes were like clear-shining little blue stones, without fear, without self. He cried softly, for joy, and knelt and thanked them for coming to see him. He had seen but 16 other people in his 37 years there. He kept history in tiny scratches on a stone, beside a meticulous lunar calendar. What could he do for them?-he asked it like a child. Once he had been proud, he said, so he had come here to see God. He had not yet seen God, but now he knew he could not see him until he died...
...shores of Lake Cayuga stands Cornell, partly on a low plateau deeply serrated by close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every...
...Though the Edge has been taken off the Senate, we can look forward with joy to the Morrow...
...punned Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times, toastmaster at a send-off luncheon last week in Manhattan to Walter Evans Edge, embarking as Ambassador to France. But in New Jersey many a Republican looked with anything but joy upon Dwight Whitney Morrow's decision to leave his embassy in Mexico City and-after the London naval conference-succeed Mr. Edge in the Senate (TIME, Dec. 9). Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of Raritan, N. J., and his friends had long been planning to boost Mr. Frelinghuysen back into the Senate seat he lost in 1922. He had already...
...Washington there was joy aplenty at the prospect of Mr. Morrow in the Senate. Particularly pleased was President Hoover, whose enthusiasm had really brought the Morrow appointment to pass. If a President ever needed in the Senate a friend of the personality and capabilities credited to Mr. Morrow, that President is Herbert Hoover...