Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase " or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution" is said to be the only provision in that document inserted in respect to one man. That man was Alexander Hamilton, who, born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, came to New York at the age of 15, at 20 was a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Washington, became Secretary of the Treasury in the first cabinet, wrote Washington's Farewell Address...
...evening they sang Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, but the words were equivalent to ' Save your ammunition.' The Eleventh Division (known as the Crack Eleventh) often sang Bringing in the Sheaves, the words of which had the same meaning as the American doughboy's slang phrase, ' Get your...
...games they can play as they grow older, and for outdoor activity generally. Except for the comparatively small number of men who need some special sort of physical building up, none of the wearisome gymnasium exercise with chest weights and other apparatus which naturally come to mind with the phrase "compulsory exercise" are required...
...rowing it has been particularly conspicuous. Most graduates remember the time when only a few men rowed at Harvard. Since then the number of the men on the river has enormously increased; in fact it has doubled since 1920. "Rowing for the many" is not merely a phrase at Harvard, but a fact. In the spring of 1922, 632 men rowed; last autumn (1922) 552 men rowed, and there were 37 eights on the river, in addition to fours, doubles, and single sculls. Rowing has been particularly popular among the Freshmen; last autumn 189 Freshmen rowed in 21 eights...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of crudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...