Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...
...working of a law of psychology. He tells you first of all that undergraduates are younger now than they were in his time. This, we have seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...
...famed in Boston was the daily Telegram, scandalmonger. When its publisher, Frederick Wr. Enwright, was jailed in 1927 for having published a libelous cartoon of Mayor James Michael Curley, the Telegram was already dead. Publisher Enwright's present venture is a Telegram-News in Lynn, Mass. Last fortnight, this sheet gave an exhibition of a brand of journalism almost extinct...
...College has long felt the need of some complete file of the growth of Harvard, and a set of the prints will be deposited among the archives of Widener Library in order that the views of the present Harvard may be available for future generations of Harvard...
...agreement itself of such wide-reaching importance as the political campaigners of Mayor Quinn would like to pretend. Its effect on the coffers of the city will probably not be very noticeable for at least two or three years, and in calling the agreement a great present good, Mr. Quinn and his supporters are guilty of a misrepresentation...