Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar trend in the graduate schools. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard also, can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...unusual good fortune which has made this an extraordinary year for the whole University. If, as its friends believe, the Library is, more than any other organic part, the heart of the University, this good Luck is no more than its due, but it has not been any less pleasant on that account...
...Another task equally pleasant for the Engineer-President was his appointment of 17 delegates, famed engineers all, to represent the U. S. at the World Engineering Congress at Tokyo next October...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
...authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly everything that Mrs. Peterkin's characters did and said was interesting. She has a great talent for creative observation and description, for realistic folklore...