Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state Czeckoslovakia got the whole of Upper Hungary with more than one million Hungarians. To the newly reorganized Balkan kingdom Jugoslavia was delivered the south part of old Hungary, with Hungary's sole sea-shore and the harbor of Fiume, with about 600,000 Hungarians. And finally, Austria, Hungary's erstwhile spouse with whom she lived during the four hundred years of a very unhappy international marriage, got a bit of old Hungary with about 65,000 Hungarians. Nevertheless as is well known, because the United States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States...
Undergraduate opinion, tinged with Congressional maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
There has been a good deal of talk about the freedom of the Harvard undergraduate to shift for himself intellectually, unsupervised except for the minimum of requirements. Behind this talk there has been much action that is courageous and liberal. But the College must go the whole way. There can be no halt-way measures, but they will exist as long as there exists the school of instruction which works out its effect in the pressure of insistent minor requirements...
...provision of the Constitution is to be reconciled with the instrument as a whole. The word "adjourn" appears several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time...
...think college boys on the whole are just great," continued Miss Gray, "and as for Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...