Word: leviathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month stories that Ambassador Andrew William Mellon had shipped a hoard of gold to Britain and was afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest...
Comparatively sprightly spawn of this leviathan of lexicons is The Shorter Oxford Dictionary. In two fat volumes, together weighing 14½ lb., it lists some 250,000 words, "covers not only the history of the general English vocabulary from the days of King Alfred down to the present time, but includes also a large number of obsolete, archaic, provincial, and foreign words and phrases, and a multitude of terms of art and science." Begun in 1902, it is more up-to-date than its parent, less unwieldy, and has all the parental authority behind...
...Leviathan, well-known to almost a generation of Harvard oarsmen, has at last succumbed to the ravages of time, tide, and Freshmen. When it was hauled out of the water last fall, it broke in half through sheer old age, and all subsequent efforts to restore it have been in vain...
Built during the winter of 1923-24, the Leviathan has been used every fall since that time to train Freshman rowers. Constant repairs have been necessary to keep it in use, and last fall the Harvard Athletic Association decided to close its career. It is hoped that sufficient funds can be collected to build a successor during the coming summer...
...second group contains all manner of Utopias, more than one hundred volumes altogether, ranging from Plato's "Republic" and St. Augustines "De Civitate Dei" to Bacon's "New Atlantis" and Hobbes "Leviathan...