Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
House, in quiet Kensington (London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
Persons who wondered how George V has managed to acquire so unique a monopoly wondered no longer when they reflected that British telephones are owned and operated by His Majesty's Post Office...
...translation of the New Testament from the Greek, was written by Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, professor of Patristic Greek, secretary to the president, and chairman of the New Testament Department, at the University of Chicago. When it was published, in 1923, and was printed serially in the Chicago Evening Post & other newssheets, there was a great hue and cry. Critics squeaked about the beauty of the King James Version and the inferiority of the Goodspeed Version. In point of fact, Goodspeed's translation into modern American was in some respects not as well written as the King James Version...
...clock this afternoon. Mr. Frederick Orin Bartlett '00 will speak in Sever 11 on "Methods of Story Writing." Mr. Bartlett is well known, not indeed alone to readers of the Saturday Evening Post, in which his "The Old Dog" stories appear, but to an even larger public of short story readers. His talk today may be taken by those hearing it as the words of one having authority...