Word: savoring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commuter, stopping in his unceasing search for daily bread, opens "Life's" mournful pages with the hope that perhaps some pleasing ray of light may issue from the same to cheer this dull world. But the dirges written there savor of some former day, of the rewards of a similar quest in the past, and he is astonished to find the cover of quite recent date...
...appeal to the men of our colleges and universities to throw their energies into the winning of this war--which we are pledged to wage till "justice and mercy" prevail among the nations of the earth--would savor of the gratuitous. From our colleges and universities have gone forth thousands--thousands of our best, physically and mentally. Our student ranks throughout the country are riddled...
...Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual patriotism...
...returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme might be toned down with great advantage...
...each number of the Magazine, has in this issue suggested a number of ques- tions in Harvard history that are probably very funny to those who understand the allusions. To those who do not, and it is highly probably that only a chosen few do, they are laborious and savor of the Lampoon at its worst. The Graduate blances up the "questions" with a vigorous little essay on the University's duty of making "practising" Americans of students of all races who come here...