Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post Hoc Ergo Propter...
...wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price, but nevertheless a pearl) in an oyster. By using the post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument which is so popular today, might we not say that TIME brought me a pearl...
...used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against "the power trust...
...Dalou," Professor Post, Old Fogg Museum...
...they include F. B. Cutts '28, Willard Howard '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, and R. M. Whittemore '29, all of them capable men in the box. Cutts' batting eye, which sent him into several games last season as a pinch hitter, makes him also a strong candidate for a post in the outfield when he is called upon to do mound duty...