Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Wilmot B. Mitchell of Bowdoin College, in the remarks which are at Bowdoin regularly attached to the report of the President, cautions the American college against surrender to the Oxford movement. If the movement be foreign in operation as well as origin to the educational idea, American style, it should be stamped out immediately, for no disease has proven more contagious. But at Harvard, which may be considered the seat of heresy, the weaknesses of transplanting have proved to be not hereditary from the native soil of England, but peculiar to a loam that has been badly sanded...
...complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either to one thing or the other?either to his melancholy or to his rouge." Another more affable young guest, one Hergesell, squired a buxom blonde beauty, but left her a few moments to dance playfully with lovely wistful...
...Natural History, headed by intrepid Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is inching its way across the northern sands. Geologists, paleontologists, topographers, zoologists, archeologists, accompanied by 125 camels, eight motor trucks, many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three...
From such lowly origin he rose through military apprenticeship under Andrew Jackson, six months' law study and admission to the bar, governorship of Texas, championship of the Indians, and national notoriety gained by a brawl with a Senator, to generalship of the Texan army, 800 strong. For Texas had at last revolted against the duplicity of the Mexican government...
...hope is destroyed by her own suspicion that she cannot consistently play the part; by Raymond's discovery of her identity with Marjorie Wynne; and, climactically, if somewhat comically, by the revelation of her lowly origin. For her mother, "betrayed" in her youth by a gentleman (Daisy-Daphne's father), rises out of her recaptured East Sheen respectability, and waddles into Raymond's parental drawing-room to inquire into the intentions of Daisy's young...