Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some one reminded Franklin Roosevelt to put into his peace-offering message to Adolf Hitler last month some honest acknowledgment of the faults of the Versailles Treaty, Herr Hitler's reply to Mr. Roosevelt last week (see p. 18) might have been much shorter, less sarcastic. The President's omission gave Herr Hitler a fine opening to shoot over the Roosevelt shoulder at Woodrow Wilson, and students of debate could but admire the adroitness with which he seized this opening. Herr Hitler has never been noted for humor. To some unsung ghostwriter, perhaps, was due an Iron Cross...
...more fundamental than this. The "guide" would have to turn away all who came seeking a short-cut to wisdom. And not content with thus reducing his revenue, he would have to get rid of his remaining clients in short order. The very purpose of "guidance" is to put the student on his own in the shortest possible space of time...
...three quarters of an hour 50 of his students, past and present, had listened to Professor Lowes lecture on Herrick and read from his poems, when he put down the volume of poetry to say in a few words what a life of teaching had taught his shout the relation of a teacher and his pupils...
...Crimson, Healey may not travel the full nine innings if Johns, Lupien, and some of the other "big stick" boys can put the game on ice early, because it is essential that Big Tom be well rested for the all-important game at Hanover Saturday. Slim Curtiss is first in line for relief duty...
Apted's men put up a good front despite the danger and succeeded in driving away the invaders who fied casting lending glances back at the Freshman halls...