Word: lime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lime, Mortar...
Howe, by reason of his three trips over the last lime line against Middlebury, stands third in order with 18 points to his name. Stafford and Sayles each have 12 markers to their credit, gained by touchdowns. Zarokov and Miller both have carried the ball for a single score, and the light-weight reserve also has one extra point on the 1925 books. Chauncey's drop-kick against Brown gave him three notches, and Moseley has booted two goals after touchdowns. Only nine men on the Crimson forces figure in the actual scoring of points this fall...
...school along lime-bordered paths past the back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted...
...doctrine of health can be sold effectively only by constantly advertising the idea to the public. However much physicians may deplore the necessity of thrusting themselves into the lime-light, they cannot rely on common sympathy to champion a business which does not really concern them...
...final analysis, consists in eating a given number of dinners at his college. In London, a law student at the Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister-at-law, dinner-eating has become a firmly fixed habit. Small wonder that British statesmen make such great use of banquets to deliver even the most important of their speeches...