Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that there is not another man lecturing in the United States today who would be more welcome at Oxford," said Heathcote William Garrod, the Charles Eliot Norton lecturer from Oxford at Harvard this year, discussing the appointment of John, Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '06, professor of English, who will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford during...
...last few years, of men of purely literary interests. As a result there are people who feel that there is a danger that the emphasis may fall in the near future upon the scholarship of literature, and upon bibliography. There is a special need at the moment for a man with a wide interest for literature, and Professor Lowes will fit this need admirably...
...attack depends largely on deception but has enough straight power plays to keep opposing linemen digging right in all the time for fear of being caught off balance. One-man blocking is relied on for the most part which means that as soon as a back is across the line of scrimmage he will in all probability pick up two or three blockers to aid his further progress. It is a type of offense which is tremendously difficult to stop once it gets under way. There are any number of trick plays which develop quickly and with smoothness and precision...
...American flag is the symbol of something outside of ourselves that is greater than we are. It stands for an idea. It stands for justice and liberty--the right of every man to a chance to rise as high in this world as his character and ability will permit, and as such is entitled to the respect and affection of all Americans...
Bishop Jones has said, in part, that "today we have two religions, the religion of nationalism and the religion of the church. It is impossible for a man to worship at both altars. "Nationalism has its symbol,--the flag; the church has the cross; nationalism has its national anthem and the church its hymns. Often the flag supersedes the church as when people rise when the national anthem is sung and often remain sitting when hymns are played...