Word: scanning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French Strother, writing in The World's Work on a visit to the White House explained how the nation's journalism was predigested for the President: a corps of secretaries scan innumerable papers; all items interesting to the President are clipped and pasted on large sheets of yellow paper, these sheets are then arranged in groups by topics and securely clipped together. Result: a comprehensive, organized news service for the President...
When Ralph Horween's drop-kick in 1916 defeated Princeton by a scan three points, there were few who would have predicted that Harvard would wait seven years for a chance to celebrate another victory over the Tigers. But seven years made the victory on Saturday all the more magnificent; no words written in quiet retrospect can add luster to such a triumph. But every Harvard man who saw the game will long treasure the picture of a splendid eleven fighting as the under dog, outplaying itself, deter mined to accept nothing but victory" and in the end winning that...
Sporting prophecy is chiefly valuable because of the contingent " ifs " which are a ready aid to conversation. Each year the scribes and the prophets, the managers and the elevator boy scan the situation with professional care and announce their choice. General consensus this Spring places the preliminary laurels on the high priced, if not otherwise elevated, brows of the New York teams of both leagues. They won last year and each team has been strengthened by the acquisition of expensive juvenile talent...
Wars start in two ways: a country may be attacked or may itself attack. In discussing the future fate of the United States it would perhaps be wise to scan what has happened in the past, and to ascertain whether we have been the victim or wars started by others or have indulged in those begun by ourselves...
...common throughout Europe among our fellow-students. I would have you picture-the life here at Harvard, and at hundreds of other colleges and schools throughout this country. Go down to Soldiers Field, go to the football field, or the hockey field, and look over the players, or scan the faces in the stands or on the sidelines. How many pinched and starved and ill-clad students can you count on your campus or in your Yard? Go back a few years to the gold stars in the service flag that flew so bravely over your and my Alma Mater...