Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word on "dolts-in-the-mountains." Your paragraph (TIME, Sept. 5) was excellent. (Mr. Miller [TIME, Oct. 10] to the contrary.) I am a mountaineer, also a life pupil in Luther Burbank's "University of Nature"; know the Grand Canyon, too. Have had opportunity to observe thousands of people as They drank in, individually, some of Nature's great spectacles...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an appreciation which the Boston Transcript reprints, of the work done by the ubiquitous and nebulous Student Vagabond. Rightly or wrongly, he is given credit for the spread of a new word in the local vocabulary, the verb to vagabond-meaning to attend lectures at which one's presence will not be noticed by the Dean's office, for the sole purpose of hearing what is said...
...Overbanked." A bank president from Sugar City, Idaho (Guy Emerson Bowerman), coined the word "overbanked" to characterize the condition of the country from that financial aspect. Urged he: "Fewer, stronger and more profitable banks." He favored consolidations and a country-wide system of chain banks as branches linked to giant parent institutions...
...strictest of his reform rules was that the bank might loan no money unless fully covered by good collateral. The late Philip Danforth Armour† once sent word from the Chicago Stock Exchange that he wanted $100,000 at once. The young president returned word that he wanted collateral. Mr. Armour furnished it and valued President Mitchell for his stubborn consistency. Marshall Field also liked him and made him bank trustee of the Marshall Field estate...
...with such energy that they are visible to man. Especially the blue gentian.' " Even in the bitterest of Author Gale's stories there is a vein of iron sentimentality; even in her bravest, there is a grimly sentimental irony. Yet sentimentality is only the approximate, not the exact word to describe a humanity that prevents each of Author Gale's terse episodes from being merely a brilliant chart of the disasters and deep triumphs of people in life...