Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only because the controversy involved was of such a nature thatit divided the nation along clearly-defined regional lines, presenting in this way two violently opposed geographical entities. The present controversy, while sentiment may prevail one way or the other in different regions, is not fundamentally sectional in origin, and scarcely can operate to cause any well defined rift in the union. Civil war under these conditions then must necessarily be nothing more, than anarchy and chaos, rather than any conflict between two well organized factions. It is absurd to assume that citizens of the United States are capable...
Theological concepts of pagan origin are somewhat out of favor just at present, but these gentlemen must surely live in fear and dread lest the Divine Eve-should open earlier than usual some morning and catch them in the act of getting a shine on Sunday...
...once been told a story of the origin of the tradition, one which seems to be accepted by the Harvard students of today. It was that about 1900 an eccentric fellow named Rinehart moved into Gray's Hall and that he became a friendless and lonely student. He envied the other fellows whose friends were always yelling up at their rooms and (so the story went) he took to standing below his own window and singing out his own name in a sad pretence that he was popular too. Other students took up the oft reiterated call, shouted it back...
...calling to mind the deceptive behaviour of parents in similar circumstances, the Vagabond concluded that Mr. McKee undoubtedly has a model family -more's the pity! Obviously the origin of the trouble lies deeply buried in the victim's past. Perhaps this extreme distaste for the college student barks back to a very personal interview, a long, long time ago, between a certain dean and a certain young Don McKee. Perhaps at the conclusion of this interview, the budding cartoonist went out into the wide world, feeling rather keenly the absence of the usual benediction. Perhaps he feels that...
...quote Coleman's words, "No signs of glaciation were seen above the edge of the escarpment at 970 feet (aneroid), and a walk of four or five miles inland over the rolling surface of the tableland reaching 1.908 feet (aneroid), showed only angular blocks of Archaean rock of local origin. No foreign boulders were found, and the conclusion was reached that the southern part of the Long Range had never been glaciated...