Word: key
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 62, present and 17th Earl of Derby, that he could no more do a mean action than stoop to flatter a fool. In that apothegm is the key to the understanding of his character. A big, burly, slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there...
...York and Jersey Cities formally opened the 9,250-ft. Holland vehicular tunnel connecting them under the Hudson River (TiME, Aug. 30, 1926). Aboard the yacht Mayflower, midstream in the Potomac, the President pressed the same gold telegraph key which President Wilson pressed in 1914 to blast open the Panama Canal. At the Coolidge touch, U. S. flags fell away from the ends of the Holland tubes. Officials of New Jersey streamed underground into New York and vice versa, followed in the first hour by 20,000 common citizens...
Last week the ward was empty. Hospital officials had opened a spick & span one in a new building on the quadrangle.* They hunted a key to fasten the doors. There was no key. The doors during 58 years had never been locked...
Ambition was the key note of Harvard's football program in 1881, and the first game with the Red and Blue of Pennsylvania was an incidental in a stretch of four games played in eight days. On Saturday, October 29, the University engaged the Brittania Football Club at Montreal. Two days later the University of Michigan eleven visited the Boston Baseball Grounds, and two days after that, Pennsylvania and Harvard met on the Polo Grounds in New York. Three days later, on Saturday, November 5, Columbia came to Cambridge. The Crimson flashed in triumph in each of these four games...
...profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...