Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived on not because it had great wealth, for Harvard has been again and again most desperately poor. It has had, of course, no army, no material force of any kind to make it prevail. It has not been the ward of a great sovereign or of a munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe...
...oddest deal of Britain's present effort to rearm herself as fast as possible, the Admiralty turned last week to a Sheffield steel firm, Thomas W. Ward Ltd., who recently bought the liner Majestic to break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built...
...Conchartee, Okla., the arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from the comprehensive array of goods described and pictured within the catalogs, a flood of orders flowed from the town and the surrounding countryside: old Herman Gutterman got some new charred oak kegs so he could put up a new batch of moonshine by the time his wife got out of jail...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...
...white feathers over Secretary Woodring's desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger Municipal Hospital psychopathic ward, where attendants remarked he would remain "for quite some time...