Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West; and if he had he would...
...influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...pictured ocean, piers, real sand, snappy shops, etc. all different with many colored awnings, wheel chairs, theatre with performances twice daily. "The Hut" in the basement with its cafeteria, and war mementos, fortune tellers, salt water taffy, and countless other attractions will give the people of New England many of the experiences of a trip to Atlantic City, with none of the inconveniences of traveling...
...chart and make possible some of our fjords for tourists to visit us. They have worked out our geology and other natural sciences and helped to publish information and record facts. For the last two years they ran a steamer, dubbed the "Wop", carrying freight, cement, sand, gravel, and rock for buildings, and coal and supplies for branch nursing stations and hospitals. They have run clothing stores and lumber camps. A Princeton coach ran a lumber mill and store. They have blazed trails, built winter tilts, run schools and special classes, unloaded coal and other schooners, cut and brought...
...often quoted by them, as the account of what befell a young man thoughtfully selecting a necktie one morning. It is hard to say to just which of our emotions or ideals this story appeals. The author of "College Life" intended it for an example of what "sand" will do in the way of escaping from an unfortunate predicament. To many who repeat the story, however, it illustrates that "ideal imperturbability" which is the core of "Harvard indifference"; the fickle public has a habit of appropriating a good story for its own use. Whatever text the episode represents, the fact...