Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordinary man, intent upon his own affairs, and content to let the universe whirl on as it it will so long as it does not bother him, the fact that men devote their whole lives to the stars is of little moment. He feels that it is a great waste of time, perhaps--that is all. Unknown to him is the fact that he sets his watch according to time given him by astronomers, that ships could not navigate the seas; that the commerce of the world depends on the painstaking care and self-sacrificing effort of men whose names...
...Council's hands. We are not greatly agitated over this announcement, for it is quite an American characteristic to put off giving until the last minute--not so much that there may be a possible chance of escape from the demand, but rather because the American loves a whirl-wind finish in charities as well as sports. We too, being American, recognize the fact and condemn the theory, and so wer run this little summons to prod our readers on to extreme geneorsity today. Give, because it is today, if for no today reason. This si your last chance...
...history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century. We must prepare our young men to meet these complex conditions...
...relaxation and refreshment. This is the wherefore of holidays. Moreover, at least once during the academic session, it is necessary that the student take himself away from Cambridge and wash from him completely the dust of every day. He needs to forget temporarily the grind of study and the whirl of his petty activities among family surroundings, in the luxury of plum pudding debauches, and playing the social lion in his home town...
With bands playing, pennanis waving, people cheering, the second of the annual baseball contests between the CRIMSON and the Yale News finished in a whirl of dust on Saturday. In the ninth the dauntless sons of the CRIMSON snatched themselves from defeat by a two-run batting rally, and in the eleventh pushed themselves to the pedestal of victory by pounding in four more tallies, a lead which the News fought vainly to out down. The final score, 10 to 9. tells the story. The CRIMSON had only one regret and that was in taking the game from hosts...