Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON, adds his share. And more than a possible misapplication of Harvard's latest educational experiment would seem to have been avoided. Fears that all Harvard would migrate to more agreeable climes have been pretty well blasted by the crowded condition of the Library and the very normal term-time appearance of the Square; Boston hostesses and Yard cops will testify that things have been "quiet" in a social way; and the bootleggers have been heard to complain of the lack of conviviality registered at the University...
Happy the city whose mayor satisfies for three terms running. Happier the city whose three-term mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...
...morally defensible by its opponents here and abroad. To collect debts and alter governments by force of arms as the United States has regularly done is usually called imperialism, despite the assertions of Mr. Coolidge. It was the treatment of Nicaragua several decades ago that gave rise to the term "dollar diplomacy", and more recently the casual remark of a marine, "We'll see the right man elected, even if we have to vote ourselves," has been widely quoted. And so, when the press of the sister continent is unanimous in opposing the American program in Nicaragua, and in fearing...
...success of his gesture was greater than Nelson knew. Not because, after his canoe had tipped over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...
...term "objects of artistic merit" will be used as the basis for choice and in the broad sense in which it was used last year. It includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, textiles, pottery, glassware and bronzes. It is asked that no student hesitate to submit any object which he owns because of its low market value, since the exhibition will be composed of objects of intrinsic art worth, which term very often is in no direct relationship to monetary value...