Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sipping pale glasses of manzanillo, and arguing about the bullfighters' war. Antonio Sanchez once was a matador but it had been many a year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped from a slaughter house herd and was charging back & forth ankle deep in cabbages, beets, potatoes and the wreckage of vegetable stalls...
...13th day the animal was able to crawl a little on its mat. "Its right front leg has limbered up," reported Dr. Cornish. "If we succeed in restoring the dog completely to life and consciousness," he said, "our next step will be experiments to save the lives of human beings...
Ever since the inauguration of the tutorial system, its position in the educational role at Harvard has remained anomalous. Though it has become increasingly the focus of educational opportunity, there has been no official recognition of its academic existence save in reports on its functioning, nor is there any method of determining its real efficacy in the educational scheme save by the indirect method of divisional results. The University has shown a hesitation in making tutorial work paramount compared to course work which has resulted in a general impression of not knowing just how to grapple with the problems imposed...
...will find it of considerable value. Professor Rollins, who will confine himself to the half year on prose in 1934-35, gives an immense wealth of material and detail in rather prosy style. The reading is rather long, but not prohibitively so, and by judicious selection the student can save himself a lot of plowing...
...other hand, London expresses gentle wonder at the probably accurate report of the unofficial spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office. With shy remoteness, it makes no comment save that it has asked its Legation to secure an official report from Japan. This, of course, is the expected move. While awaiting the official statement, London will meditate with fasting and with prayer on its impending answer. In the meantime, it will probably deepen its concentration on possible methods of combatting the annoying increase of Japanese trade with India. Emerging from its anchoritic contemplation, London will point tactfully but firmly to treaty...