Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 12 until 2 o'clock the student advisory committee will keep hours in the Common Rooms of the Freshman dormitories. They will be glad to offer any advice or information which might possibly help the new man in getting oriented. They will continue to keep hours until September...
...therefore with a feeling of optimism that a bit of advice which might sound trite and worthless if coming from an advisor may be offered to the incoming class by some of its more experienced undergraduate colleagues...
...belief that the only training for business was acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened...
...useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg, retired Mount Vernon, N. Y., businessman, had smoked a cigar in the ship's lavatory. One spark might have blown up her hydrogen lifting gas. Some of the other passengers wanted Passenger Hogg imprisoned. Capt. Lehmann only reprimanded him, took his cigars and pocket lighter ignominiously away. The ship made the Lakehurst-Friedrichshafen trip in 67 hours. Her time around the world from Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen...
Memorable to the author is this tale: The President has allowed the children to go swimming with their clothes on. Mrs. Roosevelt, afraid that they might catch cold, bustled off for a homely medicine. " 'Father, won't you ask her not to give us ginger?' He looked at us quizzically. 'Children!' he said, 'I don't dare interfere. I shall be fortunate if she does not give me ginger...