Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of the purchase by the University of the Boston Elevated Company's power plant at Boylston street and Memorial Drive. The building has so long been though of as Harvard's property, or at least as obtainable almost at will, that speculation has run rather on what might happen when it was gone. Now that its disappearance before Harvard's expansion southward has become a matter only of time, there arise two questions of prime importance: What to do with the riverfront which is now open for development, and where is now open for development, and where to locate...
Five years ago yesterday Lenin died. Since that time Bolshevism has vainly sought a leader who might pick up the reins where they had been dropped. But the man who alone in all Russia had prepared himself for the new scheme of government was not soon to be succeeded. Over a span of five turbulent years, at any rate, his principles have received an acid test, and in some form still prevail...
...quite possible that he has a workable religion of his own. Most educated men have. But if the professor pretends to be a scientist, he might find it more tactful to confine his oratory to subjects on which he really does know the facts...
After some reflection, Viscount Ennismore indicated that a Socialist Tycoon who bought enough penny shares to enable him to contribute his whole fortune in ?100 units to Neighbors Ltd. might receive "modest stipends" as follows: 1) If single, ?3 a week ($14.58); 2) If married ?4 ($19.44); 3) If a parent, 10 shillings ($2.44) extra for each child. Asked how he himself would subsist on ?3 a week, Bachelor Viscount Ennis more said: "I shall take a chamber, not too dear, and make ends meet by embroidering...
Many an interpretation might be made from these figures. Probably the broadest is that the colleges are now requiring, stimulating or expecting their students to take physical exercise and build up healthy constitutions. Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly among runners. Still another factor is the intelligence of present-day honor men. They are no longer bookworms, grinds, recluses. They are expected to. and do, take active part in collegiate activities, extracurricular and even extramural. Their alert intelligence guides them through a temperate life regime...