Word: thought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of getting a full and fair vote for the election of class officers, which has been the center of recent discussion over the senior elections, have given rise to a new attempt at their solution. At Amherst there has been proposed a system which, it is thought, will provide for a fair vote and will allow a full gauging of undergraduate preference both in nomination and final election...
...Trojans were still Pacific Coast Conference champions. To them fell the honor of representing the West in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses in the famed Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. To them also went the privilege of picking their eastern opponent. They took thought, chose the undefeated Pittsburghers...
...Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Anna McLuckie, 60, sleeping, was awakened by the bed shaking, thought it was an earthquake, leaped out, fainted, and broke her collar bone...
...never his home town, Louis had no sympathy and less patience. Once he made a speech to some learned scholars of Paris' famed Sorbonne. Said he: "You are a bad lot. You lead bad lives, with the great fat trollops you keep!" With England he fought, when he thought he could win; made treaties, when he thought he could win that way. When the great Houses of Burgundy, Bourbon, Brittany, Lorraine, Artois, Alençon, Armagnac, Anjou leagued against him, he played them off one against the other, overcame them gradually by force, craft or bribery. When he died...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...