Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corriere d' Italia was more resentful. It characterized the American immigration law as "unjust, one-sided and advantageous to Anglo-Saxon, German and Scandinavian immigrants to the injury of Slavs and Italians as well as to the yellow and black races...
...inexorable experts droned on, grinding out a plan for German Reparations. When the Anglo-Saxon bankers three weeks ago forced Poincaré to agree to accept the Dawes report, the tough, wiry little French Premier had to swallow a big, bitter pill. But when the swelling volume of anticipatory roars, groans and squeals arose from across the Rhine and when the very idea of such a plan gave gooseflesh to the goose-steppers, the French decided that the Dawes plan might not be such a bad thing after...
...those of Rome, Charlemagne, Henry II, and Charles V have been held together by a universality of language. Even today a community of language and a common literary heritage constitute probably the closest bonds for the unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations and the friendship of the Anglo-Saxon races...
...benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort of Malthusian law with to yard to the supply. The golfers will gave to be philosophic...
...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...