Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons for giving the contract to the Aetna Life Insurance Company were that its propositions were more liberal and that the company had handled very satisfactorily a practically identical plan last year for M. I. T. Another advantage of the Aetna offer was that it would write policies for as low an amount as $250, which, in the words of the M. I. T. committee, "was deemed essential because it makes the plan more flexible financially; simplifies the matter of collections and practically places it entirely in the hands of the company. The Aetna is also recognized throughout the country...
Justice Holmes' reputation for exactness of speech is proverbial. In writing for the Class Book mentioned above, he said: "I don't believe in gushing much in these college biographies. I think dry statements much fitter. Also I am too busy to write more if I would...
...feel that I speak as something of an authority on comedy," he continued, "and I have made it my aim to write good, clean comedy. It may not draw big crowds, but my own satisfaction is worth more...
...Until, now, the most enlightening work on Keats has been the scholarly Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Graphic closed its crossword contest, commenced awarding munificent prizes to smirking victors, began a new, a different sort of contest, which was immediately copied by the New this was to win rich rewards by writing the last lines of incomplete limericks (TIME, Feb. 23). Forthwith, letters, telegrams, telephone messages, began to rain upon the editors of the Bronx Home News. "Help us to write the last line and skin the Graphic." This is what the Public wanted the Bronx editors to do. The editors sat in consultation. One man's version of the last line of a limerick...