Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship is at present being overhauled, and it is planned to turn it in early in the fall, when another plane will be purchased, a Travelair like the old one, but somewhat more expensive, which, it is expected, will be kept by the Club for several years. The new plane will be flown by members of the Club to Boston from Wichita, Kansas, the home of the manufacturers, early in the fall. Those who will probably make the trip are H. P. Moon '32 and H. H. Timken '31, both experienced pilots...
...accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership," yet he is to do this without arrogance, without self-conceit, in short, without snobbery. He is to court nobility, but never to forget, as snobs always used to forget, that noblesse oblige...
...then, my mind can turn to other food...
...Young makes it quite evident that no one but Edwin Cerio could have written this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four men who feel that Capri's air should be known to all the world even at the cost of trouble to themselves. In other words, Mr. Young...
...returning their athletes' salaries to them, and in the past there has been no way of escape from the old adage, "once a professional always a professional." A study of the recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...