Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying for "Godless Harvard" might well be proud...
However, since somebody must be blamed, the architects, engineers agreed on a name, a revered name, a name chiseled across the very plinth of the great arch of modern architecture, none other than the name of the builder of St. Paul's. Everyone, perhaps including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because...
...purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...World would have it, there would be shorter vacations or none, better education, better use of the public money by a longer use of the public schools. That is the economics of the situation.' The psychological and physiological factors are reconciled in another proposal...
Significance. Nurmi is 27 -an age at which few runners can race any more, at which none has ever broken records. Nurmi broke two. More than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...