Word: toiled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...productive labor. Along the cheerless stretches of existence, many adventurous successes may be achieved. As Edna Ferber's popular novel, "So Big" showed, the Saxon capacity for work is a saving grace not to be ignored. By the use of a modicum of imagination, the seeming oblivion of toil may be turned into a romance...
...link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits of their toil...
...rest of the Harvard line-up will be unchanged. Ullman probably will start, no matter whom the Red and Blue sends to the rubber, but should Captain Long, a right hander toil for Penn, Chase who bats from the port side of the plate may get in as a pinch hitter. Though Long is one of the best slabsmen in the college ranks, Kruez, stellar fullback on the U. of P. eleven, may be sent in to baffle the Crimson stickmen, as the Cambridge boys have shown in the past that portside twirling is distasteful to them...
...been a goddess for 48 of her 68 years on earth, few of her multitudinous devotees would have known that their divinity was dead if explanations had not been made in her obituaries. Few indeed of the millions and millions of worshipers who carried her effigy with them-at toil and at play, in sickness and in health-as their most valued icon, suspected that she had lived a mortal existence...
...Carnegie Institution awarded him $10,000 a year for ten years to carry on his work; 14 years since the Government turned over to him 7,680 acres of land. During his last illness (heart weakness induced by nervous strain and aggravated by gastrointestinal difficulties) he bade his gardeners toil on, and doubtless they will continue to do so, under the direction of the chartered Luther Burbank Society. Ten years ago he married his young secretary, Elizabeth J. Waters of Hastings, Mich. There were no children. To their home have come notables from every walk of life and Burbank...