Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race is getting soft in its cities; but you ought to see some of the mothers I could show...
...such intrigues, questioned Miss Stanton, proceed from "the arrogance of a race long accustomed to wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...
Featured in the April issue of the Radcliffe Quarterly, a publication of the Alumnae Association of that college, is an article by no less a person than Le Baron R. Briggs, entitled "Not Always to the Swift". Here one is encouraged to encourage Radcliffe, remembering that "the race is not always to" the hare, and that seldom does the tortoise lose...
...race is not always to the swift", in all truth; nor is it to the co-educationally stunted mentality. All praise to them who race their tedious way to glory on Brattle. There is no need for a medley relay...
...Harvard and M. I. T. 150-pound crews, which were scheduled to race on the Charles next Saturday, will not meet until May 21. The light eights will row in a triangular race, with a Pennaylvania boat as the third entry...