Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spoils, it is more than likely that her unbroken string of victories will be continued. But the thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward to the joy that will be theirs when for the first time they compete chez the great playboy of the Western World--Los Angeles...
This pronounced and consistent increase in the number of outstanding scholars in each graduating class is the hope and joy of the tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds...
...love of deifying. The Bremen flyers were hailed with more ceremony, but with no more sincerity than was this man. If he received no key to the city; if no regal automobile waited him; if most of the Tremont Street crowds went their way unwitting, still the adulation and joy of greeting were present, and only the means for expressing them rightly won lacking...
...joke in England is a joy forever. Last week one Kenneth G. Frazer, F. R. C. S.,* of Edinburgh, a medical missionary to the Southern Sudan, wrote a letter to the London Times, telling people what to do with razor blades. Said he: "Send them to me. . . . I never could get enough of them. . . . For years I have been collecting used blades to present to my woolly friends in Southern Sudan who are experts at shaving each other's heads with them. . . . I will take them back with me in the autumn...
Shubert, June 4--"The Mikado", "lolanthe", and "The Pirates of Penzance" will bring two weeks of joy to the hearts of Backs...