Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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could not gain, and the informals took the ball on downs. An 18-yard pass, Thorne to Delaney was the only real advance by either team, both being content to limit their attacks to line plays...
Like one of the six best sellers in shape and the Pathe Weekly in content, the new Illustrated swings into line with a spirited purpose. The first number is dedicated to the Class of 1921, and it will doubtless tickle the Freshmen because there is no salutatory editorial of ponderous advice on the first page. For the Illustrated now, for the first time, affords an answer to "What's in a name?" and becomes an illustrated magazine and no more...
...demagogue and the ruin of true liberty so long as society has existed as an institution. The vast majority has provided for the minute minority irreconcilable to the conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content with its own freedom of choice. It will choose for the whole nation. That is their desired personal liberty. That is the freedom of choice which they proclaim...
...American people, as has been noted often by men who understand their temperament, are emotional to an unusual degree. That emotionalism has been quickened to unexpected intensity by our entrance into the German War. Whereas before we were content to view rather calmly, and in a sense of abstract interest, the outcome of the war, we have now become absorbed in it with our whole hearts...
Straw hats are the glorification of spring. True, Keats never sang in praise of them when he penned his imperishable odes. But that was probably because, being a poet, he was forced to content himself with a hand-me-down of a last winter's derby. Roses may wither, westerly zephyrs turn into wintry gales, blue spring days dissolve, but the straw hat, like the river and the youth of excelsiior, goes on forever...