Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With President Hoover on the last lap of his re-election campaign, Mr. Castle expressed confidence that somehow or other the Herriot plan will "fit into" the Hoover plan for one-third reduction of the world's armed forces...
...desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took them safe to Australia, where they were all glad to say goodby...
Today Deturs are presented by the dean of Harvard University to men of "highest honors." This year, fifty-five men, the largest number over to be so distinguished, are to receive this recognition of their attainment. To the average undergraduate, however, the word Detur represents either a misspelling or, somehow, an intricate, incomprehensible pun. There has hitherto been no attempt to publicize the institution of Deturs, and small fault can be found with such an attitude. But as peculiarly a Harvard tradition, as a valuable incentive to scholarship, and as interesting to the booklovers, the Detur is worthy of greater...
...trouble at all. Then he tried the smaller (477½ ft.) Second Pyramid whose apex still retains much of its original smooth alabaster sheathing. Hoisting himself confidently from one 4-ft. block to the next Alpinist Herron reached the top, stood up and waved to his friends. Then, somehow, he slipped. A sprawling black spider to the horrified eyes below, his body slithered off the alabaster cap, bounced down the huge jagged granite steps to land crushed and dead at the base...
Throughout the land at colleges opening or about to open, similar scenes occurred last week. Boys and girls without money sat down with officials whose earnest wish was somehow to finance the spread of culture in a time of shrunken credit. It was a realistically strained fortnight in a world where strain is usually academic to the adults and exaggerated to the young...