Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond had it on his calendar to say something today about the fact that spring is only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much...
...paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful thing about them; they always had something to say, and then, they laughed so easily. Peter began to think he too was quite a light. This backed up his pet theories; now he was getting somewhere...
...Religious life in our colleges today is quite healthy, I should say. Youth has always been a period of questioning and doubting, and there is bound to be some unbelief among students. Later, life with its broader experiences brings sounder views...
...this increasing number of dropped and readmitted Freshmen responsible for the yearly increment of poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class is in a measure due the large number of dropped and readmitted men is of course valid, but it is fallacious to point to a continued increase of poor records as the result of this condition unless the increase in the number...
...have been dastardly. For appearance's sake they restrained the show of their animosity as they flew across the U. S., as they sailed by ship to Japan, as again they flew across Asia and Europe, to Le Bourget Field at Paris. And there Flyer LeBrix had his great say. It was, harshly: "At last I have finished being valet to Costes...