Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers of the omniscient and loquacious William Beebe type- a chance to exercise their knowledge by recognizing, perhaps to share the excitement of failing to recognize, strange spoils of the sea; a chance also, when Commodore Vanderbilt publishes his book on the collection, to come in as consulting experts...
...great stone gods torn from their native jungles in the Yucatan and Mexico, or the weird spirits stolen from their haunts in the South Sea Isles suggest an explanation far more in keeping with the slow uncanny revolution of the basket, than the most learned expositions of science...
Increase of population, colonies, access to the sea, sea lanes, markets, food, and raw materials are thus the principle causes of rivalry between nations. Mr. Bakeless, however, does not content himself with this general statement, but outlines all the possible kinds of friction between various nations today and the potentiality of a new world war in each of them. For there is no isolation in the modern world. Mr. Bakeless foresees that, in the near future, the United States will lose its favorable isolation, as England lost here during the past twenty years. The greatest value of this book...
...transplant the roots of English tradition with their growth of centuries, an incomparably harder task than supplying new elms for the Harvard Yard. A Magdalen or a Magdalene cannot be improvised. If the English colleges were imported and grafted on an American university they surely would suffer extraordinary sea change...
...have always had a sort of half guilty interest in Byron's As a callow school boy I would recite "The mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks on the sea," and see the handsome, bare-headed figure of the poet, wrapped in a long dark cloak, and gazing out over the wide ocean. Today, at 10 o'clock in Sever 11, Professor Lowes will lecture on Byron in English 28, and even though it means attending two courses in succession, I shall be there...