Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life insurance is the most modern method by which the uncertain is made certain," quoted Mr. Woodhouse from President (then Governor) Coolidge's address in 1921 to the Life Insurance Sales Congress. "I believe that the most wonderful thing of this insurance program," continued Mr. Woodhouse, "is that every man--no matter what his condition may be can contribute equally in the building of this endowment to Harvard. This insurance is a policy on each man's life, and I consider it a marvelous way of keeping up the class spirit and of holding the class together...
Clearly, they saw, these pictures could not be measured against tradition. The eye sees a head, a landscape, a pattern of concrete objects. All traditional Art, admitting as important this thing seen, accents the reaction of the artist to what he sees, recognizes as an accidental requisite to the presentation of subject and the personality of the artist, the element of style-form, line, color. The artist, running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that...
There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...
...discussing the United States Line itinerary. Mr. Holmes said, "At Genoa, the main thing is the situation of the city itself. The drive on the upper road above the city looking down is the most notable feature of the place. The general impression is the thing here. Don't be lured to the palaces and churches, as I once was. They may be important to the Genoese, but don't waste any time on them...
Breathes there a graduate with soul so dead as to have forgotten how, in those first few weeks of frightened freshmanhood, the one thing he had in common with other scared freshmen, the one thing which gave him a sense of "belonging" amid the vast impersonal vacuum of a great university, the one voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge...