Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rayment '28; A. S. Reinhart '28; P. H. Rhinelander '29; J. R. Richardson '27; B. L. Rideout '27; L. J. Rittenband '29; F. W. Roberts Jr. '29; Saul Rosenweig '29; M. C. Ross '28; Abraham Rubenstein '28; L. A. Rusin '27; J. F. Ryan '29; G. H. Sage '27; Carl Setzer '29; R. T. Sharpe '28; T. B. Shea '28; S. N. Shurtleff '27; M. H. Siegel '29; Henry Simon '29; H. J. Slaughter '29; R. T. Smith '27; Herman Snyder '27; Pierpoint Stackpole '27; G. L. Stebbins Jr. '28; A. J. Stewart '29; W. V. Strauss...
...wonders concerning the sage's self-appointed attorney. What does he share with the long dead guilty one in addition to the same fatherland? Does the same spirit animate him that kindled the oratorical fires of the king of Sophists? If so he is a unique species. Centuries have brought changes to all countries but none so striking as those to Greece. Occasionally one runs across a person possessed of the true Grecian spirit. The proposition of Socrates modern defender would appear to indicate that he is not among that sacred...
...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...
...certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves of the great open spaces of the Westmorly swimming pool, and increase the amount of his breakfast by a quarter...