Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University was advertising, seemingly with record enterprise, the degrees it has to confer upon correspondence students. Newspaper displays made it appear as though famed Professors John Dewey (philosophy), Michael Idvorsky Pupin (science), Ashley H. Thorndike and John Erskine (literature), and peers would personally supervise the work of unseen disciples, send them their marks, write them advice, send pearls of erudition by rural free delivery. Shrewd customers; however, did not raise their hopes so high. They well knew that, like the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, California and other institutions conducting extension courses, Columbia must find mail-order pedagogy in such demand...
...married Carl Bender, a Danish artist, who sympathized with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors. The Dewing girls, Mary and Elizabeth Ann, attend a Manhattan convent of English nuns...
...staggering marriage dot of the daughter of Henry Ford. She, tender, susceptible, had yielded to the suit of Count Alexander Skrzynski (6 ft. 3 in.), onetime Premier of Poland (TIME, May 3) who visited here last year (TIME, July 27). Miss Ford would bring to Poland enough gold to send the zloty zooming...
Into Chicago evenings last week, at ten, a phantom curfew tolled. There was, of course, no actual bell, no iron clapper to send austere waves of sound across the tranquility of the Loop. There was merely an edict-the police were to arrest all children under sixteen years of age whom they found on the streets, unaccompanied by adults, between the hours...
...sensation, even the New York Times gave him a front page column. He had deposited, he said, the body of Earl Kitchener with London morticians. Prime Minister Baldwin received a letter from Mr. Power-previously released to the press at space rates- inviting His Majesty's Government to send experts to identify the body. Then suddenly Mr. Power effaced himself, retired into hiding, lay low. When eminent pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury and London Coroner Ingleby Oddie finally took it upon themselves to open the casket, they found it filled with clods of earth, hunks...