Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Didactic, self-righteous, he could have named his papers Citizen, Tribune, Sentinel, Monitor, Leader, Pilot...
...refreshing as the Wednesday noon singing at the Colonial Club, as cheering as one of Judge's Younger Generation Notes, is the Christian Science Monitor's report of what the American workman, cum laude 1928, does with the extra minutes that have been lopped off the time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation...
...solution completely negatives the last presumption. From the evidence in the hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions...
Scripps-Howard newspapers; the Christian Science Monitor; Political Commentators Arthur Brisbane, William Hard, Frank R. Kent; Presidents Wilbur of Leland Stanford and Angell of Yale...
...expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...