Word: ring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cheers from the Harvard hosts ring high...
...cheers from the Harvard hosts ring high...
...about to call his students when he sees standing in the aperture to his study an angel, and anatomical anger, of course, one really anatomically possible since it had no wings. This creature points significantly to the hour glass and warns the teacher, at the moment he would ring for his students, that he has but one hour to live; that his ultimate salvation, after penance in another world, is contingent upon his finding in that last hour and in that town, one believer in all things traditional and holy. The teacher seeks for such a believer. His students laugh...
...youngest contemporary, The Illustrated. That this will in the end prove to be a whole-some tendency is altogether probable. There is no necessary contradiction between usefulness and fine writing. Within the limits of digestion it is better to cut the teeth on food than on an ivory ring. In short, even for those who aspire to write it is a useful exercise to be useful. At the same time it is to be hoped that the Monthly, having stimulated journalism in others, will continue to pursue and occasionally to overtake, literature...
...city. About this time came the disclosures of grafting in the insurance companies. The policy holders in the companies are the citizens, who are supposed to elect officers and directors. Investigation showed that the directors were organized in combines which elected committees, and these committees interlocked, thus making a ring around the officers. When the ward heelers obtained policies from the people, they got proxies which went back to the officers of the company. The officers nominated directors who would stand in with them, and thus control was assured...