Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...
...scholar whose specialty is the study of noise, to tell its inhabitants the worst about their city streets and subways. He finds that the streets of New York are less noisy than those of Chicago, whether because silent powder is not used in Chicago guns he does not say; but the roar of the New York subways, equal to that of an airplane motor in the protected ears of an aviator, exposes New Yorkers to a greater volume of should than that in any other city. As to Boston, he says that the purpose of his presence in that place...
...last week, took "the courage of my profession in my two hands" and warned religious faith healers not to interfere with mental hygiene efforts. Said he, a neurologist: "We [doctors] make no claim to cure disease. I look forward to a day when the church will have courage to say that it makes no claim to spiritual healing...
...Star-Spangled Banner.' Ye gods, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' of all songs! Well, of course, I didn't know the words. I asked Bill Tilden to give me the words to the song and he went as far as 'Oh, say, can you see?' Then he 'ta-da-daed' the rest. What a scholar he is! Finally I had to have the words looked up in a library...
...modern use of propaganda may be said to date from wartime days, when it was the practice of all the combatant nations to send their airplanes over the enemy lines laden with explosives calculated for detonation in the mind of the infantryman. Since that time it is safe to say that no country, including even Britain, has become so expert in the use of this weapon as the United States of Soviet Russia...