Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where we are accustomed to study and reflect, where all the surroundings are natural. When we there hear the same man speak we know him better than we could in the crowd. The very tones of his voice, quiet and deliberate, if he is to be heard by radio, proclaim his sincerity or his lack...
...natural course of events, Cambridge has become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid the clang of street...
Charles Curtis, the Indian-blooded Kansan, accepted Senator Borah's invitation to proclaim himself no friend of the palefaces' firewater...
...contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
Since a university is in many ways a small city, it might be well to see what conclusions are reached by the New York authorities. It is doubtful if Mayor Thompson is sensitive to noise, but Mayor Walker may proclaim a quiet hour, when traffic shall cease, dogs be muzzled and babies gagged, and "all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;" If this should be found practicable, some way may be found to add to the other mottoes of a university, Requiescat in pace...