Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Wheelwright's granite-honest poems of moral and spiritual struggle; William Carlos Williams' angular free verse written between his rounds as a New Jersey physician. For most of Spearhead's contributors, however, experimentalism has become an end in itself, a sort of perpetual and meaningless joy ride...
...applicants, leaving an accepted residue of its own composition. Since the advent of Chairman Richard M. Gummere in 1934 the criteria used in the filtering have moved slowly but surely in the direction of President Conant's "democratization." The College Board has eliminated the specialized examinations which were the joy of carefully prepared prep-schoolers; scholarships, including Mr. Conant's new National variety, have mounted; geographical distribution has been emphasized...
Wise in the ways of the extra-University world, Axt guessed that the financial estimate accompanying Shepley's plan could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
Despite his sixty or more years, Mr. Kennedy is still energetic, his hair, though white, still grows thick and long, and his eyes still express elfin joy when he recalls that in the one major football game he over saw "Harvard got her hind beaten off--by Yale." Mr. Kennedy feels less objective when it comes to the Glee Club. Speaking of the value of music, and of the Glee Club, in his life, he concludes that it "Fills in something there that is worthwhile...
...joy of harvest home was tempered by forebodings of tomorrow...