Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more substantial need than examinations in March. For the fall brings back to academic pursuits a host of men who have whiled away the summertime in physical exertion or passive vagabondage. Perhaps examinations in late October can tell whether or not they have returned in spirit as in person...
Charles G. Dawes appeared last week in the role of a stickler for Senate rules. In the Chamber senators are supposed to address themselves only to the Chair and to refer to One another in the third person. The press has noted of late that there has been some laxity in this respect. But last week Senator Watson was asking a question of Senator Fess. Senator Watson's desk is in the front row, third from the centre aisle. Senator Fess' desk is in the fourth (rear) row, eighth from the aisle (nearly directly behind Mr. Watson's because...
Only one soothing note was struck: the assertion that Germany's "will to enter the League alone," as epitomized in the inflexible person of her President, must triumph. As youthful Germans crowded about their parents to know the meaning of all these developments, there was told to them again the plenipotent legend of Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und Hindenburg...
...Schlamm." His joy at his first taste of warfare was quickly conveyed to his family by letter: "I gratified my longings on the battlefield−smelt powder, heard whistling around me projectiles of all kinds−shells, shrapnel, canister, rifle-bullets; I was slightly wounded, thus becoming an interesting person; and I captured five cannon...
...bones of the cranium form the brain case. They are the occipital, the two parietals, the frontal, the two temporals, the sphenoid (wedge-formed) and the ethmoid (sieve-formed). At birth these bones are not completely joined, the jointure being fulfilled by membranes, which change into bone as the person grows older...