Word: wander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind which meanders through college without marking time to the beat of contemporary life. And he contents himself with that defense rather than with an attack upon the deum machinae of the university. In his opinion this type of spirit is ordained by its very being to wander through life, entering no fixed abode, enjoying perhaps the feel of a book, the form of a thought, the swing of a measure. A foe of the heaviness in living, it strolls on, devoted to its dreams, while progress eludes it as it eludes progress...
...Secretary of State is a little man, and he is rather nervous in his manner. So the giants of wit and wisdom who wander among the concentric semicircles of desks in the Senate Chamber looked at him quizzically, and between the making of one law and the making of another dubbed him "Nervous Nellie...
...work when the heart is cold. Jane Addams sees a century ahead, and she sees a clear path to the light for which we are groping-but she sees but one path. If we won't take that path, she walks on alone and leaves us to wander along as best...
...desire to eat--that human frailty which is so universally toadied to we can but scantily satisfy it. Certain of the undergraduates have their eating clubs, but the great unwashed (meaning the postgraduates) wander hungrily from the "Splendid" to the "Georgian", or dissipate at "The Betty Day", and wonder why their appetites are not so good as formerly. Charge accounts are unknown: there are too many students for the proprietors to take any risk...
This is the first Council of State to be held in the present reign. One was held during the reign of Queen Victoria and many during the reign of King Edward, who was prone to wander at fitful intervals all over the Continent...