Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest and in work done", the rest of the University is probably less sanguine in its outlook. It may even fail to agree that the Brooks House does not enjoy "its due importance and prestige among the undergraduates". After all, the Brooks House must inevitably be considered a thing apart. In no way does it qualify, nor can it be compared with other undergraduate activities...
...great nervous vitality and never ceasing vigor. He is direct, quick-thinking, and if his manner appears at times to be fussy, it is doubtless only the manifestation of an excess of energy, and of a consciousness, which he cannot well escape, that he is a good organizer-a thing any man must be to create expeditions for exploration purposes, and not only to create them but to carry them through...
Some time ago (TIME, Feb. 4) William Randolph Hearst secured an apology from The New York World for saying that he was understood to be the publisher to whom President Harding had referred as saying one thing in private conversation and another thing in his paper. Not content with one apology, Mr. Hearst brought libel suit in England and secured an apology for the same remark from the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and the Continental Daily Mail. Having produced a letter from the late President showing the assertion to be false, Mr. Hearst magnanimously accepted an apology and an arrangement...
...well known that the German Emperor long contemplated an invasion of France through Switzerland. It was in every way a better road of attack, for it would enable his army corps to enter the heart of France in a region undefended by forts. But there was one thing that stayed him. He knew that to pass though Switzerland would cost him hundreds of thousands of lives and months of delay, if he ever got through at all. Switzerland was prepared. Now on the other hand what would have happened if a lot of sincere, but none the less dangerous, pacifists...
...short hundred years ago, and in some localities even less, the rapier was not carried purely as an ornament with which to set off the latest thing in filigree lace from Venice or Aleppo. It was a weapon, and for Monsieur le Comte to be seen in public without his hilt resting beneath his left hand was an occasion for the wildest conjecture. As is the case with almost everything else, however, the halo, of romance which formerly hung about the point of the sword has congealed into a small tape-wrapped button, and the wrought gold basket work...