Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...society is now constituted, only those who have something to sell--who are able to enter into a give and take arrangement--can, as the phrase is, "make money". The president of a shoe manufacturing company is paid a good salary. He has his services to sell and can say to the director, "Pay me, or you won't get me". But a missionary is in a different situation. All he says is, "Pay as much as you can, and as long as I have enough to eat, I'll work...
...with the airshaft, but fails to advance any reason why there should be no airshaft. Obviously an airshaft is a vital necessity, and what in the face of rain and snow, is less strange than that it should be covered? "Drinking fountains in the slop sinks" is a nasty phrase. yet only a phrase, since, after an inspection, it is noted that, like other drinking fountains, these are placed above sanitary basins to receive the superfluous water. "Mention might be made of the toilets, the lighting, and ventilation in general", but you do not make...
...regulations regarding college studies, and only partially to cuts. One is tempted to wonder, too, if a student can obtain all the desires of his heart merely by insisting that they are reasonable. At any rate, it seems that "abolutely free men" is a little too broad a phrase...
...Next stop the Old Maids' Home."--thus the Hasty Pudding Club in its the-atricals characterizes the Vincent Club. Were an impartial reviewer of "When South Meets North", this year's Vincent Club production to apply a fitting phrase he should say, "Next stop the Ziegfield Follies...
Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...