Word: roam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youthful, galliard tone is decidedly something extra in Rub life, supplied from a foreign source. Like an amoeba, the Sanhedrim that draws up Boston social lists reaches out long pseudopodia to Cambridge, absorbing whatever it wants in the ways of male sustenance, and rejecting the rest. So the young roam through their pleasures and palaces quite separately from the old, and it is the young who usually usurp the front pages of the society sections. Relegation of the middle-aged, and increased respect for the goings-on at deb parties have been common to all societies for many years...
Specifically, what Mr. Lowell did in the Harvard Yard was first to unify the curriculum by insisting on a more reasoned use of the elective system. Boys were no longer allowed to roam at their own free will among snap courses; they were required to know something of several subjects and much of some one subject. Next, he abolished the sprawling formlessness of undergraduate social life by gathering all the freshmen in a group of dormitories specially built for them down beside the Charles. That was considered a great innovation. But a greater, and more needed, was to follow...
...wrote in preparation for his second campaign tour. About the Democratic presidential nominee clustered college professors, researchers, political advisers, economists, financial experts supplying him with material for speeches on an eight day swing through 15 states. Some of his friends thought he was making a tactical error to roam through territory much of which already appeared to be his. The Roosevelt itinerary...
...hope is to operate the reform school on the lines of a private school. Superintendent Robert Rosenbluth will function as headmaster. The boys, whose ages range from 12 to 16 years, will have 700 acres in which to work, play and roam. They will wear no uniforms, live in cottages, conform to no more rules than do private school boys...
...which exploits, in true conquistador style, the huge, rich, deadly land and its enslaved natives. The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink themselves deathward on scattered plantations. In the unmapped interior roam man-eating lions, hostile natives, rumors of an unkillable rebel chief. The Governor, aptly nicknamed the Scorpion, is a polished gentleman grown old in disease and expedient wickedness. He welcomes Jeronimo, gives him the job of mapping the unknown interior. But he distrusts him, sends after him to have...