Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President George L. Mackintosh of Wabash College, extended his retrospect, to cover the whole 20 years of his administration, for he had resigned (voluntarily), and would soon be succeeded by Dr. Louis B. Hopkins, personnel director of Northwestern University. Dr. E. G. Cutshall of West Virginia Wesleyan (Buckhannon, W. Va.) was to be succeeded by Dr. Homer B. Wark of Boston University...
...Indian Retrospect. Lord Irwin succeeds as Viceroy the former Lord Chief Justice of England, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, son of the late Joseph Isaacs, a merchant in the city of London. Lord Reading is perhaps the classic example cited to prove that ability and application suffice to catapult the merest of commoners to the heights in this 20th Century...
...Retrospect. Jurists recalled that several of the states making up the Republic (notably Bavaria) were recently on the point of "settling out of court" with the Hohenzollerns, who have been highly successful in most of their suits upon which judgment has been rendered...
Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...
...same thing as when one has been through some frightful anxious adventure, like a shipwreck at sea, or a lucky escape from the charge of a lion while game hunting; the original experience was far from enjoyable, but when looking back in retrospect one enjoys, has even a thrill, in recalling the adventure, although at the time one may have been almost frantic with anxiety or fear. We are in love with our memories though the original experiences were far from lovable. The same principle applies to pleasurable football memories...