Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...After dinner we visited Harvard, the great and glorious university, whose wish it was to have King Albert become a Doctor of Laws. Harvard is situated in the midst of a suburb of Boston, at Cambridge, which is a sort of small paradise of quietness, an oasis of green foliage where it must be delightful to study and to dream...
...great white seats which rise tier on tier...
Expressions of sentiment in the colleges on the most important public question of the day is a momentous experiment. One of the great weaknesses of our democracy is that our views, as a nation, are not organized. Certain groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment...
...life that matters--but the courage you bring into it," might we have been the text of St. John O. Ervine's great play, "John Ferguson, which began its first week in Boston a the Hollis Monday evening. It is a word of unusual power destined to live because it deals with emotions, instinct and characters which will exist as lone as life itself exists...
...goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws of economics" to provide its food and clothing; and when a great Strike supervenes, it puts its Great Seal of approval on Published Opinion, in some such form as this: Such things should not be; they must stop; the guilty ones must be punished...