Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days of Sir Philip Sidney are not over, for out of that very Ford stepped two Harvard undergraduates (both feeling fine!) and offered assistance. We thanked them, but refused, as we had help, and they promptly went to the nearest car in trouble and offered their services. I saw those two boys help six cars out--with their Ford, or else pushing. They must have been drenched, as all who sat through the game were, and then they got covered with mud. One man had the poor taste to offer them money, when the student turned away, the man inquired...
...determination to show their best kept the University team in the lead during the first five miles. At this mark, Tibbetts, Captain Chapin, and Cutcheon, ranked eighth, twelfth, and thirteenth, but the added mile and one quarter by which the Van Cortland exceeds the Charles River course saw first place slip away while second was hotly contested. Pittsburgh and Syracuse, both of which had been running in a single group during the first five miles, made their bid for victory. Six Pittsburgh runners forged ahead and were among the first fifteen men to finish. Syracuse, champion for two successive years...
...walls that housed them, the atmospheres that colored their lives . . . from the low-ceilinged room of the 17th Century ... to the ballroom where Washington danced and the fine rooms of the early 19th Century." Wandering through the passages of that new wing, members of the notable gathering saw what Lawyer Root meant. There were many rooms, built in older decades for homes, set up again for History...
They came, they saw, they gave it up. The New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox, seeking to acquire cash and culture simultaneously by means of exhibition baseball games in Europe (TIME, Sept. 29), disbanded in Paris. Some headed for Berlin, others for Rome, some for the Riviera, some for the battlefields. All were agreed that the trip had gone far enough. Despatches stated no causes, but probable ones were: bored spectators, slender receipts, foul weather, diverting sights, fare, people...
...Just as a hundred years ago the world saw that it could not afford to do without science, and subsequently led us into what has turned out to be a great scientific era, so now the world is perceiving that it cannot do without art, and its life on earth is not complete and happy without the spiritual content that art alone can bring. It will search for a higher art just as it has reached for a higher science...