Word: sap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acceptance of anything which may damage the repute of higher education, that such charges should become so widely believed that a college of the standing of Smith should find it necessary to refute them, and appeal to the alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak...
...this talk about the young folks going to the dogs and drinking themselves blind is pure nonsense. They are youthful and filled with sap and vinegar, but that does not mean that they are a gang of inebriates." In such a manner, W. E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Federal prohibition agent, smilingly told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday that college men today are "all right...
Sirs: Why not let Subscriber Epstein (TIME, Aug. 15) in addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...
Further, let not Subscriber Epstein make unbridled use of the term "sap...
...secretion, different from sap, gathered in tiny sacs between the bark and wood, occasionally in the leaves, of certain trees...