Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with time. In 1979 I can imagine a man of 70 saying to his grandson, "Here is a Subscription Bond for your graduation present. My father gave it to me when I graduated in 1929. The only condition is that you let me read TIME as long as I live. I hope you will keep this to hand on to your grandson in 2029." ARTHUR G. SKEELES...
...prize to be obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity...
...policy of having two Graduate Secretaries to having one Undergraduate Secretary with a graduate in an advisory position on the Governing Board was precipiated by the resignations of Stone and Sommers. Most of the work which these two men did formerly will be handled by Lynd who will live in the Union and maintain an active connection with all of its activities. He will be in charge of all the dinners, football rallies, class smokers, and other functions except for the arrangement of the speakers program...
Ivan Skripnik slowly laid down the knife, prayed again. Gregory Romashevsky's mental conflict ceased, he desired to live. Springing up, he plunged the sacrificial knife into Ivan Skripnik and also into Igor Serednitzky. Both were dead when Soviet police arrived...
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U. S. poet (The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven) who often loudly intones his own verses, returned last week to live in his native Springfield, Ill., after several years of residence in Spokane, Wash. In Chicago he was banqueted by friends. Said he of Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice...