Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international understanding is once more called to aid the efforts of statesmen and diplomats. The idea is not new, since within the last year or two, similar assemblies have been held at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and Amherst. But in the development of this latest organization, there is much that may remedy the difficulties that have impeded former attempts...
With the improvement in the efficiency of such an organization, it may be that something will be actually accomplished toward the intangible goal that invites the efforts of its constituent organizations, namely, that of inciting the continual study of international affairs, with particular regard to the League of Nations and its procedure, and the promotion of international understanding...
...that Daylight Saving-a phrase which seems to illustrate how the economy of the government has penetrated even into the world of nature-was invented, in view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles and "Ask Me Another" combined was about to be put into force again, decided to be a bit beforehand and improve...
...said for and against enterprises seeking an idealized brotherhood of nations. But, if it is possible for the host engaged in this form of endeavor to shake off the patronizing sentimentality that at present casts an altogether too holy shadow over such efforts, the underlying economic and political significances may be found to be of some import. The present organization, founded on a sound mechanical basis, has at least a greater opportunity than the confusedly related bodies that surround it, to arrive at a conclusion worthy of the attempt...
...softly for such morbid reflections, so that suddenly what with the spring and all there flashed into his mind-one of those inspirations for which the Vagabond is famous-a line of what might, with judicious help of the riming dictionary, be a poem: "If April comes can May be far behind." It had a familiar ring; the vibration, he thought which shivers through all great poetry. But no, its ring was too familiar; he had heard something very much like it before. And then he remembered-and both his poem and the beauty of the day were blown away...