Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small colleges at Harvard developed along such social lines, there would be no improvement over the present system. It is not likely, however, that they would so develop. Our undergraduate body, heterogeneous in comparison with most American colleges, is homogeneous in comparison with Oxford, which has students from every walk of life, every English-speaking country and state, every race, and every color. English youths, by the time they go to college, are heartily sick of public school conformity, and go in for rather extreme individualism: but over here, the desire to be "regular" outlasts school, and oven college...
...Mussolini! The throne of his power rests upon the bodies of an oppressed people. His sword is at their throats. The vision that delights his eye is a field of the slaughtered. The picture that most entrances his soul is an ocean of blood, through which he can walk with brutal, tyrannical feet...
...subsidy extended to the coal industry last July has already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the owners vowed they would lock the miners out rather than pay the wage demanded, unless the government continues its subsidy...
...smoked and discharged flaming dragons of molten lava to writhe down and be drowned with great hissing in the sea. By the end of last week, all was quiet again. The dragons lay dead, their heads in the water. Little animalcules?human beings?swarmed about and ventured to walk on the monsters' cooling hides. One man?Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?climbed high up on the protuberance?Mauna Loa, one of Hawaii's two active volcanoes and the largest in the world?to take observations...
...feature of the Freshman athletic curricula this year is hiking. This form of exercise has attracted '16 men, who have pledged themselves to take five mile walks twice every week, and then a ten mile walk at the end of the week...