Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Berry was born one county away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days all New Yorkers were reduced to reading one jointly-issued tabloid for their news...
...something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David Vivian...
...Melvin, who was in a hospital, had died of scarlet fever. Mrs. Anderson fainted. Later the parents went to the O. V. Mast Undertaking Co., but were not allowed to see the body because of the danger of contagion. As they prepared for the funeral, the undertaker sent word that the hospital had erred, that another Anderson-named child had died, not Melvin. Mrs. Anderson fainted again...
There is a word to be said for inter varsity competition. It may not be British, but it is invigorating and manly. Annual big games are exciting and fan for both the spectator and participant. They have become American institutions. They are colorful, inspiring, even cultural. They are colossal symbols of our national spirit...
...greatest source of indifference on the Harvard scene is the general and recognized futility of any other attitude toward the existing academic order. Harvard is traditionally and in point of fact the triumphant example of a dominant administration. Nowhere in the world is it possible to hear the word yes so loudly, so frequently or so unctuously pronounced. In University Hall, in the lecture room, in the editorial offices of "The CRIMSON" criticism of university policies is, not only unknown, but would probably create something akin to panic...