Word: longing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
Another problem is that some prizes have long since become dated. The award of approximately $70 for the "best essay on the life, work, or interests of John Ruskin" attracted only two entrants last year. When the award was instituted over 20 years ago, that English author and critic was much more highly regarded than he is today...
...most of us, if we have the urge to try it, the trail to literary success will be a long one, full of overflowing wastebaskets, piles of rejection slips and tens of thousands of unprinted words. And most of us will never make...
...Gutenberg Bible has long been a magic term among book collectors. As the "first printed book worthy of the name", copies of it have been valued at above $350,000. Harvard has an outstanding Gutenberg Bible among its rare book collection...
Coburn said the Mill Street squad plays the accepted rules of girls' field hockey at every college. "As far as I can remember, there are 12 people on a team, and they spend the afternoon running up and down a long field," he mused...