Word: trod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-centered. They were "human beings who did not quite know who they were, or who knew it in a more pious, deeply exact way than the modern individual-beings whose identity was open in back and included the past with which they identified themselves, in whose steps they trod, and which again became present through them...
Historians of American business have consistently elected to follow one of two extreme paths. They have either been disciples of Ida Tarbell and the muckrakers, or they have trod mincingly behind the apologetic steps of Arundel Cotter's infamous "U.S. Steel: A Coporation with a Soul." Messers. Cochran and Miller, instructors at New York University, have instead attempted to write a chronicle of businesses as an ever-expanding institution. Their task is history, not propaganda...
...Mexico's rainy season. Their patient digging, off & on for three years, had finally uncovered this important fact: The ruined pyramid, palaces, monuments and artifacts their spades had been turning up were those of ancient Tula. For two square miles, nine feet under the dry, caked earth trod by barefoot Mexicans and their mincing burros, stretched the remains of the Toltec capital. To complete its excavation would take at least another ten years. But the Tula find already ranked historically as the most important since Carnegie Institution scientists unearthed the famed Mayan temples of Chichen Itza in Yucatan...
...took a regiment of "the finest infantry that ever trod the earth . . . soldiers that Caesar or Napoleon would have given their right arms for, soldiers that Lincoln would have given both arms for" to wipe out Lebanon. The 500 Lebanese nearly wiped out the 2,500 Confederates first. Readers North and South may be startled by Author Street's account of the sordidness, trickery, confusion and coldheartedness with which the most romanced-about of wars began, and by the role which he assigns to that "Machiavelli in homespun," Abraham Lincoln, in touching...
Jellicoe and Scheer commanded from their bridges at Jutland, but today things are different. Chester Nimitz has commanded submarines, and cruiser and battleship divisions, but he has never trod the bridge of the fleet flagship in action. And under today's condition of warfare he probably never will. That is why Texas-born Chester Nimitz had need of his famed, monumental patience last week...