Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which is to be held a week from today...
...Hartwell '32 gave a beautiful exhibition of diving, easily excelling the rest of the field in the four required and two optional punges. W. F. Nelson '32 edged out P. H. Cohen '32 for second place...
What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
...Media figures showed that the 387 papers had carried a total of 2,629,598,181 agate lines in 1928. All but about a half-billion of this was display advertising, the rest Classified (want advts, legal notices and the like). In total lineage, the Chicago Tribune stood at the top with 30,874,755 lines (as against 31,834,173 for 1927). On its heels came the Detroit News with 30,726,436 lines (in 1927 the News had 30,459,968). Third was the New York Times with 30,641,930 lines...
Today, at about 46, he is "a mass of nerves and a bundle of nerve." He wants a good rest. But acres of undeveloped land, undrilled, remain his. They may beckon...