Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris. President Gaston Dou-mergue pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor upon Captain Lindbergh, on the day of the modest remark: "It is much easier to fly from America to Europe than to fly from Europe to America...
Tilden, on hearing of this remark, defended himself: "I knew someone would fall for that. If I refer to Hunter as the junior member of our team, it is because he is a few months younger than I and not because I am ranking myself above...
...first year men look forward to election to clubs in the fall and others entertain vaguer hopes. It is too much to expect men in this situation to bind themselves to a club table even for a half year. In the second place it is merely aphoristic to remark that before there can be a want there must be a lack. Freshmen are still being fed regularly and adequately and like the grasshoppers are likely to enjoy the present season of harvest and plenty without much thought for the coming dark winter in Grecian one-arm establishments...
...understandable in view of the for- wardness with which the Aurania backers advertised their scheme, identifying it with the Ryndam cruise as if to shoulder the Uni- versity Travel Association's projected repetition into obscurity. But The Binnacle of the S. S. Ryndam had the honesty to report the remark of a shrewd student: "The idea of college travel is so much bigger than the men who have thus far been behind it that the idea will succeed ultimately in spite of bad management...
...Smuts, the enigmatic statesman and dictator; the Prince of Wales who came to Africa and smiled less and danced more than people expected; leaders in the Union political movements. She analyzes the various currents of commerce, government, economics. The effects of the Boer War she finds revealed in the remark of a young British-South African who refers to-"the place we South Africans licked the English...