Word: myth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the fact that popular skepticism has been aroused concerning synthetic food, the new scientific process of manufacturing edibles is a reality and not a myth," These are the words of Professor J. V. Osterhaut, Professor of Botany in the University...
...general do a great deal to spread the seeds of discord that the Boche have taken such pains to sow. Headlines such as the following may be seen almost daily in the news-papers: "British Even More Bitter Against Americans Than French"; "Charm of La Belle France a Myth"; "French Glad to See Last of Americans"; "Dislike on All Sides in England"; "Doughboys Receive Fair Treatment From Germans"; "American Troops Enjoy German Hospitality"; and son on. Anyone who takes the trouble to read this communication may quite naturally ask "What has all this to do with me? I realize that...
...scarcely needs statement, and I am sure that a much less acute observer than Mr. Lazarus believes himself to be would see that. The statement that Hughes draws his support throughout the country from the Anglophobes is plainly taken from the New York Times, which persists in an outworn myth in spite of the activities of some Hughes supporters, as Mr. Roosevelt, and in spite of the fact that it has no political significance, either practical or ethical...
Probably the most distinguished performance in the number is the myth contributed by Mr. Fairbanks. Under a rubric from Plato (unfortunately misprinted), in a manner than just avoids preciosity on the one hand and banality on the other, he describes the soul that lingers this side of the river of Lethe, unwilling to forget--what? A kiss. At last she resigns herself, compelled to know that "all souls turn to Lethe at the last, because it is not worth while to remember what others forget...
Animosity toward Yale on the athletic field, once a reality and later a tradition, is now largely a myth. In its place there is the right sort of rivalry combined with clean sportsmanship. Dean Briggs has commented on this feeling in his report on athletics. His words, bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them...