Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real is imaginary; the imaginary is perfect. That was a thought which came to the Vagabond as a young lad; and one which he would hold as he cherishes his youth. Though the heart, the Vagabond has been told, doesn't wrinkle, still well he knows it becomes poor. For in youth all things are of the same importance; nothing escapes our attention; and dreams are more precious than facts. But as we ascend the steps of formal education we act with design; busy ourselves with particulars; and carefully exchange the pure gold of the imagination for the paper currency...
That is what Sagmus said; and that is the Vagabond's way. He is too poor to go otherwise; and too rich to want to do so. Imagination is the free way. Unbounded by space its roads are endless; timeless, its speed is as the flash of ideas. And so perhaps to Rome one hour; to Greece another. A trip to the stars before noon; to the soil of the earth as quickly. Nor will the Vagabond confine himself simply to places; but more important, to ideas. Therein lies the adventure of adventure. So come prepared, ye young ones. Soon...
...general nature of a candidate's work will be outlined by Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, President, and the specific details of the different competitions will be explained by Stanley C. Salmon '36, Managing Editor; Henry V. Poor '36, Editorial Chairman; Merritt K. Ruddock '36, Business Manager; and Philip L. Nightingale '37, Photographic Chairman...
...start as a messenger boy in Lincoln, Neb. Arriving in Boston as a bank examiner in 1899, he stayed to become president of the Massachusetts National Bank. When that bank merged with First National, he became president, later board chairman. Last week, at 67, Mr. Wing retired because of poor health. Bernard Walton Trafford, vice chairman, stepped up into his place. A native New Englander, Chairman Trafford was born in Fall River, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, where he won eight varsity letters. Long an engineer for Bell Telephone in the Midwest he was glad to join First...
Biographers have usually met the problem of Grant's politics by placing the great warrior and the poor politician in closed compartments and permitting no commerce between them. William B. Hesseltine has met it, in his exhaustive, 480-page study, by placing all emphasis on Grant's political career. The result is an eminently readable book which clearly describes the character of Grant's political thinking? or of his political thoughtlessness?without quite accounting for either his occasional shrewd successes or his awe-inspiring failures...