Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors in the sentimental graduation milieu, immediately upon the presentation of the last diploma let their thoughts wander New London-ward and shouts and prayers for victory supersede solemn rumination upon the joys and sorrows of graduation...
...goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages to wander through the entire book without demonstrating any personality whatever. On the whole "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" is a very good book to avoid. In all fairness, however, it must be admitted that the binding, is pretty and the general ensemble attractive...
...Chapel was very informal. Professor Moore who for 23 years has been in charge of the services, first expressed President Lowell's regrets for not being able to welcome them in person. Professor Moore briefly reviewed the history of the University, and concluded by urging the group to wander about freely within the University. As soon as the first section of the delegation bad left the Chapel a second group of 600 filed the aisles and Professor Moore repeated the brief ceremony. Later he conducted various groups through the Yard, pointing out Wadsworth. House and the room where George Washington...
...might be as dull as the Man Who Knew Coolidge, and still run a good Marathon. But ad these indictments carefully weighed still present no valid reason why a person should not stroll across Boston Common at the first appearance of the tulips and the Swan-boats; wander through the vaunted architecture of Copley Square; mingle with a good natured, entertaining holiday crowd against a rope and before a policeman; gaze with awe at series of exhausted men who have run twenty-six miles for glory: and not, having done all this, enjoy it immensely...
...have lived in Bakersfield seven years; my husband for 15. We are agreed that no matter how free the years might make us to wander, Bakersfield shall be our permanent headquarters. Bakersfield does have high summer temperatures but so has every other spot in this big state not right at the sea coast. Los Angeles, we think, is ''dreadfully hot" in summer, because it is often sultry; Bakersfield has the dry clear air of its neighbor, the Mojave desert...