Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip, with provisions for six weeks, turned northward on a 700-mile trip to the North Pole. They should have wade it in eight or nine hours, they might have returned in as many hours more. But they did not. They kept the world waiting. They might have suffered mishap and be trekking back. They might have descended at the Pole, as they hoped to do, for scientific purposes. Yet the chances "of finding a landing field from which they could rise again were small. If they landed and could rise again, how long would they tarry for scientific observations...
Except for his mishap in French- farcically supposed to have been due to a Democratic professor-John Coolidge has commended himself to the famed little New England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox...
Lieutenant Wade was the pilot of the aeroplane "Boston" which met with a mishap, which almost proved fatal, on the home lap of the trip while crossing the Atlantic Ocean from England. This was only one of the many experiences which he went through in the eventful flight which encircled the globe for the first time in history...
...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
...mishap did not occur until after M. S. Huberman '25 had been declared winner, while L. P. Beverage '25 and R. L. Kilgour '25 received honorable mention. Professor R. L. Hawkins, Professor L. J. A. Mercier, and Mr. E. L. Raiche acted as judges of the speeches...