Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...journalistic pipes with a mighty welter of superlative swell toward the climax of the overture. Out in the shadow house a moneyed populace whispers expectantly, and straining, catches through a rift in the curtain delicious glimpses of promised wonders. And not a tear, even hypocritical, falls for the old fellow, battered but unbowed, led away to an obscure almshouse. It is the model Y of fragrant memories, a picaresque place that in the noisy exuberance of gallant youth growing nation. But it is said that Harvard and America are decadent now. One rides in Chryslers...
...Corson '28, took the welter weight championship last year, while Joseph Lifrak '29, won the light weight title in the Intercollegiates...
...lead in several isolated years. The reasons for this shifting popularity may be either external or internal. However, the fact that Economics has ascended the throne more than once in the past seems to show that the movement is a variable one. The most direct solution of this unstable welter of statistics would be found in an analysis of the influences which determine the vagaries of the undergraduate mind at that delicate period which follows the Freshman and precedes the Sophomore year...
...console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether or not he will like a certain course or, if he has listed his courses the previous spring, whether he still chooses to take the same ones. The welter of duties which surrounds the opening of each college year is made simpler and less involved because of the genius of the registration office. Only a return to the prehistoric and patience-testing methods would bring about an adequate appreciation of the system now in effect...
...situation is admittedly complex. The Episcopal Temperance Society illustrates an attitude, and little more, in the great welter of discussion and morass of mystified opinion. There is only the hope that Father Time may be more quick and bounteous in his revelations than he usually seems...