Word: mouldering
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...plenty are about to set in. Superstitious souls may take this for what it is worth though it seems hardly worth any very substantial wagers in itself. A second and certainly more considerable reason is Coach Brown, who after a successful preliminary season in his first year as moulder of the varsity rowing destinies, reaches the objective and critical test of the season tomorrow. The third reason, and rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year...
...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
...hard to clap your eyes on. This species was for a long time called "press agent." His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates to do it is to give something for nothing, that is, empty space for heavy camouflage that should (he feels) be paid for at advertising rates. Publishers' trade sheets fuss and fume with "exposes" of "moulders" and "agents" specially...
...Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from savages into civilized beings, the "average educated man" may choose from a number of living soldiers of the Cross who are carrying on work of a character somewhat similar to that of the earlier heroes--such men as Dan Craw-ford in Africa, Sherwood Eddy in India...
...will be both as a moulder and a representative of opinion that the CRIMSON will attempt to speak. But its success will be not in whether it has moulded opinion, but in whether it has helped men to think...