Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note from a gentleman of Tasmania informed the President that he was about to become the recipient of a wallaby. Dictionaries were consulted, and orders were issued to send the gift to the zoo when it arrives. Said Tine New York Worlds "T. R. never would have been caught like that. 'A wallaby? Bully! Loeb, cable Newman to send an echidna and a platypus along with the wallaby. And, Loeb, see if he can pick up a bandicoot or a phalanger. This country hasn't half enough marsupials and monotremes...
They too kthe Governor from the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago where they first lodged him and carried him by automobile some 20 or 25 miles out of Chicago to the Beverly Hills forest preserve. Newspaper men trooped along- some Manhattan papers going so far as to send men on for the event-because they were sure it was going to be a great picnic, and because they were sure it was going to be the beginning of the "Smith for President in 1928" movement...
...York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back clicked Cub Edison: "Send with your other foot...
...memoirs of the late Vice President of the U.S. Thomas R. Marshall, published serially by The New York Times and other newspapers, appeared these Hoosier philosophizings upon pedagogy in general, the Classics in particular: "My people chose to send me to Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind. It was staid, as it is yet. An old-fashioned institution, founded for the purpose, if possible, of giving to a young man what I am pleased to call a cultural education; that is, to train him in those studies and direct his mind along those lines which will give to him powers...
Imagination circumnavigates the globe at will. So do radio, millionaires, white whales, tramps, salesmen, sometimes, U. S. Army fliers. To organize a college, enroll a student body of 450, put it on a ship and send it through the seven seas is another matter. The mind is willing but obstacles overwhelm. In 1924, New York University attempted it, bowed to "unforeseen difficulties," postponed it a year. Last week, "the detail work" caused postponement for another year. This announcement followed upon a statement, a fortnight ago, from Dean James E. Lough, author and sponsor of "Around the World College" (TIME, June...