Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every prize-winner there is a proxinie accessit (he came very near). Jn this case the prize-winner (of Harper's $10.000 contest : TIME, Aug. 3 i » was Robert Raynold's lirothers in the Vest; proxinie accessit was Author Davis' The Opening oj a Door. When you have read them both you may ponder the discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian...
...vest and full dhoti [three-foot-wide loin cloth]. My hearers wore only a strip of cloth about four inches wide. I saw that where my clothing uttered only a partial truth of the poverty of India, these millions, compulsorily naked save for their narrow langotis, gave through their bare limbs the starkest truth...
...shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments, Uncle Sam thereafter became a standardized character of the Press...
...interest with which the officer observed his license plate-V-2880. "Don't you know you're parking in a bus stop?" Policeman Ripley began pleasantly. Then, before the driver had time to reach the two revolvers in his pockets, or the tear gas gun in his vest, or the two other revolvers concealed in the car doors, or the one under the cowl, or the machine gun in the rumble seat, alert Policeman Ripley covered him with the weapon he had hidden beneath his rain-cape. The officer marched his prisoner, hands in the air, through...
University Scholarships: (first year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) R.F. Baker, Battle Creek, Michigan; C.E. Barnes, Lewiston, Maine; W.B. Gardner, Hartford, Connecticut; C.C. George, Washington, District of Columbia; R.B. Heilman, Easton, Pennsylvania; E.B. Vest, Dixon, Ilinois; H.M. Reynolds, Williamsburg, Virginia