Word: wade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eminence hard won, she saw lives as fretful incidents and watched her wide horizon for the serene sickle moons of many harvests yet to come. The Significance. Persons who pontificate on the "phases" of literature say: "Realism has crossed the Potomac." If that is so (doubtful), it did not wade, swim or fly. It was ferried. As an experiment, Dorinda is interesting enough, compelling to the mind; and the soil she is set in- Negroes, cowpeas, broom sedge- smells properly. But no amount of fertilizing will remove the agricultural tag: "Hardy Lady Farmer in the South, transplanted." The Author. Miss...
...companions in two flying boats taxied along the water and rose in the air. Spitzbergen dwindled behind them, as their heavily-laden craft, fueled for a 1,600-mile trip, with provisions for six weeks, turned northward on a 700-mile trip to the North Pole. They should have wade it in eight or nine hours, they might have returned in as many hours more. But they did not. They kept the world waiting. They might have suffered mishap and be trekking back. They might have descended at the Pole, as they hoped to do, for scientific purposes...
...approval? Let us take the mayoralty of the City of New York. That office has been considered second in importance only to that of the Presidency of the United States. But ask any man who has been a candidate for that office what a flood of abuse he must wade through to reach the Mayor's chair; and, if successful, how difficult it is to keep the people currently informed of administrative projects and accomplishments when a hostile press is arrayed against...
...final contest for the Lee Wade Prize and the Boylston Prizes for Elocution will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The speakers select their own pieces and the order on the program is decided by lot. Ten undergraduates, selected in the preliminaries, will compete...
...following list of men retained in the finals of the competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes was announced last night by Dean Briggs: T. F. Kelly '27, D. W. Keyes '25, E. M. Littell '26, E. J. Metzdort '26, W. D. Morton '27, H. M. U. Newburger '27, R. V. Pugh '25, H. R. Robinson '25, R. H. Schacht '26, and P. W. Williams...