Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price, but nevertheless a pearl) in an oyster. By using the post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument which is so popular today, might we not say that TIME brought me a pearl...
...travesty on education and an insult to the art which he professes (or should profess) to interpret. And when another young man, a professor in this case, reads the warmest poetry in the language "vulgarly" (as a discriminating Frenchman in the graduate school put it) not to say uninspiredly and unappreciatively,--that is a transgression and torturing abuse of "things conceived in the blood and passion of the heart". To many Harvard men the English Department has been reduced to a group of definitive and meticulous scholars for the training of Ph.D.s who have failed, for the most part...
...Some say that when a man enters a university he has reached the age when it is up to him to decide whether he is to make the most of his time spent there or whether he is to fritter it away, together with his family's money. This, they say, is the principle on which English universities operate, and toward which Harvard has been inclining...
...forbid. I think that this is only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
...Christmas Day, 1893, in Santa Rosa, Calif., was born a man who has been called a liar more often than any living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh...