Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid. U. S. Minister Curtis ran over from his legation. Ensued a weighty conference at the Presidential mansion...
Last week-twelve months later, almost to a day-the Yale Record published its "House-Planners' Number." Less bitter, less funny than Harvard's lampoonings, Record artists and scriveners had taken up stumbling brush and unsure pen to abuse Edward Harkness again. He had given Yale more than $10,000,000 for a House Plan similar to that of Harvard (TIME, Jan. 20). Still unaware of the Plan's detail, Yalemen only knew that last autumn's excavations on New Haven's Elm Street were for a group of buildings vaguely designated as "Unit...
...pen on Arnold Frandsen's farm in Sharon, Conn., 14 silver-tipped black foxes slept snugly in skins worth $500 apiece. Well aware of this were two men who, equipped with wirecutters, drove an automobile up a country road late at night and got out about a quarter-mile from the fox pen...
...curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more material pen, but he publishes all the same; forced by this vicissitude of present convention...
...also intends to follow suit. Believing that the action of two such universities brought this plan, beyond any question not only into the realms of practicability, but also would set on foot a movement that would spread throughout this nation, we felt, unwisely, that we might lay down the pen and await certain developments...