Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons, briefly, are these: the modern college president, caught between the devil and the sea of trustee and faculty opinion, crippled by his load of financial responsibility, torn at by his mis-understanding undergraduates is, at best, a harried and futile dictator, at worst, the ancillary official of major interests without the college; the modern board of trustees are a group, unskilled in matter academic, educational--men of affairs without the interest of the college at heart, middle class, bread and butter people as ineffective as they are powerful; the faculty is a poorly paid group, subservient to their extra...
...said, with a twinkle in his eyes, "I started in as a Freshman at the age of 11 and my education occupied the age of 11 and my education occupied the greater part of my life. contrary to general opinion, I did not start in to 'follow the sea" but devoted myself to the lumber business on the Pacific coast...
These gestures of international concord were made on the occasion of a visit by the U. S. European flagship Memphis to Kiel, famed cradle of German sea power...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: "I was attended by physicians in Tokyo for a bad cold last week. Recovered, I left for Kioto* with my wife, Princess Louise. Later we will tour the Inland Sea on a Japanese warship and visit Korea...
...Maine coast. The play was written and accepted, but what it was, except "about the Civil War," the world never knew. Mansfield died and for friendship's sake, John Lord destroyed his first play. Out of the same year, however, came a narrative poem of the sea, for which he received the International Prize...