Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goal toward which Harvard has been moving is yet far in the distance. The purpose is still not generally understood, the machinery erected to effect it is ill-adjusted and insufficient. After today the burden of carrying Harvard College along the path to perfect education will be that of James Bryant Conant...
Today six hundred and eighty men come to the end of that beaten path which they began twenty-odd years ago; with graduation from Harvard all formal precedent for a plan of life ends for them, they must choose for themselves the manner in which to dispose of the remainder of their careers. In the last few days they have listened with carelessly concealed indifference to advice and interpretations concerning their futures, and all have reflected to themselves that they are in a position where they can and must make a new evaluation of education and life. They have probably...
...Gentlemen. ... In the firm belief that mutual consultation is the first step towards right action, I inaugurate this conference. I pray that the result of your labors will set the world once more on the path to prosperity and ordered progress...
Directly in his path they launched a skyrocket. Zizzling true to aim it hurtled into President Tonisson, dented him painfully, did no real damage. When the President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...
...Palmer House, Just 13 days before John Drake scampered out of the path of the fire to buy himself a new hotel, Potter Palmer swung wide the doors of Chicago's finest hostelry. Like most of Chicago it was burned to the ground. But the grizzled bon-vivant who had sold his drygoods store to Levi Leiter and Marshall Field because he thought his days were numbered, lived to see a new Palmer House become Chicago's first world-famed hotel. Its barber shop (floor studded with silver dollars) set the fashion for every first-class saloon west...