Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson...
...that time, everyone knew that he was a great middle distance man but no one anticipated Eastman's doings this spring. Late in March, in a dual meet against the Los Angeles Athletic Club, he won the 440 in 46.4 sec., a full second faster than Ted Meredith's world record which since 1916 had been regarded as unbreakable. Two weeks later, Ben Eastman won a half-mile race in 1:51.3, or .3 sec. faster than the world's record made by Dr. Otto Peltzer of Germany in 1926. Since then, in addition to his exploits...
...Slim, bespectacled Ben Eastman of Stanford: a 440-yd. race at Palo Alto in which he lowered Ted Meredith's 16-year-old world record by one second...
...pubs, from dance halls. Minesweepers, destroyers, every available ship put out into Dead Man's Bay. Searchlights dug into the fog, were reflected back in a sickly glare. Soon after midnight trawls struck an obstruction. News was flashed to every city in Britain; everyone breathed easier. Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered divers down at daybreak...
...Deplored a too candid allusion by First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, to the naval mutiny last fall (TIME, Sept. 28). "I know what a shock this incident was to the whole country," burbled Sir Bolton, "but I beg the House of Commons and the country to understand it was a most profound shock to the Royal Navy. The Navy realizes today that we no longer occupy the very high position in the hearts of our British public that for past centuries...