Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are cousins, grandchildren of famed Joseph Medill who put the Tribune on the path to lustiness. They made sandpies together as children. They went to Yale. But before young Patterson was graduated, he rushed off to China in 1900 as war correspondent. Two years later, he was married and became a reporter on the Tribune. As he rose from one desk to another, he wrote four trivial novels, the most successful of which was A Little Brother of the Rich, and one good play, The Fourth Estate. He said he was writing to please himself. When the War started...
...dash at Philadelphia, Charles Paddock jumped away from the line while the nearest spectators leaned over the brick wall of the grandstand to watch him. Badly made and softened by dampness, the wall broke and onto the track tumbled spectators and debris. One old man fell square into the path of Paddock who jumped over him and then swerved to avoid debris, pounded on to cross the finish line in 17 2/5 sec., a world's record...
...newspaper of the preparatory school can be expected to follow the path of the college paper in external and internal development will be determined by the single leash of time. It is doubtful, for instance, if the secondary school journalist would be wise in taking a book supplement upon his hands. The checkrein is tightening on extra-curricular activity all through the educational system and what is possible to the divided interests of a large college staff may be less feasible where the burden is less distributed...
...Stepping up" his movie machine, he has taken reels of the reeling helium atoms; his picture gallery now consists of 100,000 photographs showing the tracks of about 1,000,000 atoms. The atomic trail is infinitesimal, a narrow path (usually straight but sometimes bent as though the atom had trespassed too close to some minute object which had repelled it) made of the same water vapor that forms the clouds. Occasionally some dizzily dashing helium atom hurtling through the hundreds of thousands of normal atomic citizens in the air crashes kerplunk into the nucleus of one of them. Only...
From many, many mouths has come the plaint that Harvard takes things of the intellect too seriously, to the exclusion of the collegiate heroism of romance. The charge has gone unanswered, while Harvard continued on its path. Erring the University may be; but one feels somewhat less inclined to subscribe to such a belief, as time brings no great disapproval of her methods, but rather an access of those once doubting...