Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except a few who have struck oil on their land allotments, and now ride around in straight-eights, most of the Indians are still poor enough to need Government...
...delicate bit called "Cheddar Pinks" in his new book is more characteristic. Indeed, so lost in pure artistry is Laureate Bridges that he quite forgot himself in a satiric bit addressed "To Catullus," referring to his immediate predecessors, Laureates Tennyson and Austin, as "those two pretty Laertes of Eng-land...
...Rosenthal's Manhattan attorney Alfred Lind said in a letter to Secretary of State Kellogg last week: "Mr. Rosenthal's life was worth far more than any ransom which would have been demanded. In all our broad land there could not be found a finer type of American citizen...
...were not all young men, as originally planned. Several young wives and not a few studious unmarried women had been accepted. About one-third of the passenger list was composed of this year's college freshmen whose parents had considered that their young would make more of a land university after literally seeing the world. Full credit for courses passed awaited the voyagers when they should return to stationary education. Instead of frivolous weekends in large U. S. cities, they would have spent their spare time in trips ashore, under watchful and instructive supervision, to foreign banks, temples, schools...
...time foresworn responsibility. Some words have less illumined connotations than others. Responsibility to many must remain a gray word. Cambridge is a gray place. New England to the Puritan eye which first sighted the rocks of an uncongenial coastline from the small but purposive "Mayflower" was a gray land. The Puritan mind was a gray mind. But Harvard College owes its existence to that gray land, to that gray mind. For out of the dull, hard labor of founding a home, a church, a college upon the rugged, seldom cooperative soil of New England grew the heritage which is Harvard...