Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grow against the difficulty and affection of speaking corectly, however much "Liberty" may protest against the refusal of dictionary makers to substitute the easy idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...
Only ten days remain before the climax of the season for each of these teams. On May 28 the Harvard and Yale Seconds will battle on Soldiers Field in the last game of the season for the University batsmen, and on the same day the Crimson and Blue Freshmen will cross bats in their annual game at Soldiers Field. The final contest of the year for the University cubs is scheduled with Andover...
Gracefully if somewhat reluctantly Harvard concedes the first moral victory of the football year to the directors of New Haven athletic destinies. The H. A. A. has stated clearly that it does not care to remain longer either different or indifferent in regard to non-scouting agreements, and that next year its officials will restrain any curiosity pertaining to Yale teams until the final game in the Stadium. Next year organized and open scouting of Eli teams will be abandoned, with the words "next year" specific in the agreement. Remembering the tardy, appearance of her football teams among the ranks...
...outgoing and incoming Presidents General as published in the issue of TIME, May 2. The article is quite interesting and would be more so if it were quite true, but as it happens, I am not the retiring President General. I came into office last year and shall remain for another two years. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook whom you designate as the new President General, retired last year after a three-year term...
...divide personalities from their physical appurtenances, with the feeling of a preconceived ability to dispose of these forms within their foreordained niches. The overwhelming ramifications of the puzzling ideas of Relation, Appearance, and Reality, which are suggested by inference, may here easily disturb and amaze us, and yet remain on first reading upon a separate plane from the actual passage of these chronicled events. But a more leisured reflection upon the nature of this book may easily start thought coursing through the various strata of speculation from Gulliver and Mark Twain to Bradley and Pirandello. The terrifying enigma...