Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent in to our local paper Valdosta Times last week. I have been an interested reader of TIME several months, so decided to report this longest dry time which the oldest or middle-aged inhabitants can remember experiencing in this locality. The river Withlacooche is so near dry, hogs walk in centre of river bed just knee deep. The water is generally 15 ft. or 20 ft. deep when of normal depth. TIME is very wonderful...
...congestion so well. The larger the city, the broader is the opportunity for kindred spirits to find one another and to play and work together. The wonder of New York is that it is the first place in the world where a man can work within a ten-minute walk of a quarter of a million people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop a constant interchange of thought. I don't see why anybody anxious to see civilization and culture develop...
...collect relics and set out full of enthusiasm, no whit deterred by his light purse. With his own money he bought a donkey on which his bride could ride if she grew tired, and set out from Cairo. The more relics he collected the more his wife had to walk, but Bridegroom Breasted tramped all the way and enjoyed it. He had been a runner at school. When he took his relics back to Chicago, President William Rainey Harper made him Assistant in Egyptology-the first chair of Egyptology in any U. S. university...
Pleading for a return to the four masters Ralph Walk do Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, and James Russell Lowell '38, Shorey failed to find their counterparts in modern times, and proceeded to disperse the idea that these men have been outgrown along with the Classics...
...thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack & the Beanstalk, a "fairy opera for the childlike" with libretto by John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), music by Louis Gruenberg. Opera and cow were presented in Manhattan last...