Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor and fee the servants...
...other hand", he warned, "a study of the past should remind us of the fallibility of all human judgements, even those of the best informed. What appear to be clear-cut issues to one generation may seem nebulous uncertainties to their descendants...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...President again advised the Seniors not to forget the past in providing for the future and he asked this question: "Should not even this troubled generation find it a worthy aim to bring forth new creations of the spirit which posterity will not willingly...
...regretfully report that misgivings on the part of younger members of the Faculty, as well as of many older members, are more widespread and deeply rooted than over. The past few weeks have seen an unparalleled furry of administrative section in declared application of the principles of your report. The most debatable parts of the report have been put into precipitate operation: others have been neglected...