Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used by the women of old and are used by the women of today in Palestine; agricultural implements, as the one-handled plow, which no man could guide while looking backwards, or the plowman's goad against which the prodded animal kicks in vain; skin and parchment scrolls of portions of the Hebrew Scriptures; Syriac manuscripts of the New Testament, many century; old; part of the Epistle to the Romans written on papyrus; in the fourth century; and so forth...
...moment the resolution seemed upon the point of passing; the vexed question of "disarmament" was to be shelved again. Then up rose Count Apponyi, that lean Hungarian statesman, a grand seigneur of legend, whose pointed white beard, flaring Roman nostrils, and face of parchment, give him, when he is solemn, the air of an exiled patriarch, and, when he laughs, that of a goat. He swept the conclave with proud and sombre eyes. Twisting a little paper in his hand he began to speak...
...immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment in his hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would have consulted the Delphio oracle to learn the meaning of the strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write...
...that the best oration had been furnished by blond, curly-headed E. Wight Bakke, 22, of Onawa, Iowa, a junior at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). They awarded the $2,000 first prize to Bakke for saying, among other things, that the U. S. Constitution is not "an old faded parchment in the Nation's capital, but a document written on the heart of every American. It bears not 39 signatures; for each of us it is signed by but one name our own. . . . Through our amending power or through customs which we create, we are constantly enriching its terms...
...thoroughly. Stir in liberal portions of athletics and, if possible, a select clan, or two to give the right tone Add an occasional pinch of sensuality, and soak for four years in alcohol. If the resulting mixture has the right consistency, stamp with an official seal, wrap in parchment, and lay on a shelf. These ingredients will produce an education of approved brand. It will pass current at face value ever after and will admit the possessor to the best of fellowship. Caution: Preserve the parchment...