Word: sending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: 'The Navy doesn't send a battleship out to the Great Lakes to show it to the taxpayers! It couldn't be done in the case of a battleship and it couldn't be done in the case of the Shenandoah, but they were so stupid it had to be proved to them...
...second great step is to put all politicians on the water wagon. The personnel of Congress is overwhelmingly dry, both in practice and in precept. But I am in favor of a vigorous policy from the White House down that will break every bottle in official America and send unpatriotic and dangerous politicians to the scrap heap...
...first story interested a man who knew King Frederick VI. This friend persuaded the monarch to send him to school. He was very backward in his classes. He graduated, wrote dramas which were never played, books which were never published, until a novel, The Improvisatore, brought him suddenly to fame. In his spare moments he had written a few fairy tales, idle things for which he had no regard. He wanted to be a dramatist. He traveled through Europe; after his triumphant visit to England, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate Pier. His plays were refused. People asked...
...contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...
...hand by President Hopkins of Dartmouth and on the other by Dean Hawkes of Columbia. Are four years in college a waste of time? Would it not be better to convert the college into two year advanced preparatory school, concentrate there on cultural development, and then send a south law school, business school or architectural school? No, said President Hopkins, as one might expect. Yes, said Dean Hawkes, equally consistent with the institution he represented. The junior college and the professional school of a large university, said he, will be the education of the efficient future...