Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day and the next the same thing happened. Not until the bluebooks were falling thick and fast on the table could the proctor find anything wrong, and then--just one terrifying stare from the unknown eyes, and the discovery that there was a blue-book too many. the mysterious being could change its shape at will for never did he appear twice in the same form. Once a section man thought he recognized the features of a freshman who had been run over by a trolley car; another swore he saw a man who had been expelled last June...
...plan actually remains indefinite concerning the authority to be invested in the business group and the extent to which their advice would necessarily be followed. Mr. Strawn himself described the scheme as "embryonic." John W. O'Leary, suggested as head of the new regime, said that "the whole thing" was in a "formative state." and James Simpson, Marshall Field president, scolded Mr. Strawn for making a "premature" announcement. Yet, loose and shapeless as the plan at present appears, the business government movement, perhaps immediately inspired by the desirability of "cleaning" Chicago before the World's Fair of 1933, is undeniably...
First, John Blymyer went to Doc Lenhart, of York, who told him he was bewitched; then he had powwows with Doc Sam Schmuck and Maizie Homer who both told him the same thing, though neither of them knew who had hexed him. Last, he tried Mrs. Noll. Each time he went to her, she told John Blymyer the same thing: "Rehmeyer done...
Blasé Swedes are used to this sort of thing. Not quite three years ago Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium eased similarly into Stockholm on the eve of his engagement to Princess Märtha's sister Astrid, now Crown Princess of the Belgians...
Harvard University is such a composite thing, so integral in each of its component parts, that it is generally defined in terms of entities whose prominence shuts off the view in other directions. To the undergraduate, Harvard is Harvard College; the other departments of the University exist for him as places where the residents have nothing in common with him but a search for knowledge which is so much more intense than his own that even it is somewhat foreign...