Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago and the University of Chicago are fast accustoming themselves to the presence of 30-year-old Robert Maynard Hutchins, youngest great-university president in the land (TIME, May 6). Last week he addressed Chicago's Union League Club, delivering himself of several quotable remarks, including the following...
...average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste, socially superior to any one they can meet in any of the newer countries...
Rebutted the Countess of Iveagh, M. P.: "Then why not give widowers something for nothing? . . . Furthermore the bill discriminates against spinsters, who may be quite as worthy as widows...
...Citizens may still expect to find sacramental wines in the basement of most Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, Jewish synagogs. † Native wines and 75% Beer
...expect to save $900,000 by substituting volunteers for State trainees and the Royal Military College at Duntroon may be closed...