Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longitude, 45° of latitude, beginning in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa at dawn. Traveling in a northeasterly direction-into regions where the day was more advanced-it crossed the Equator, swung eastward, ended at sunset in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and New Guinea. Although a partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment...
Collector Hamilton Was an outstanding member of his Yale class, although an injury to his back, and the consequent wearing of a steel jacket, prohibited any athletics. He was potent in campus religious interests. Singlehanded, he removed a heavy mortgage from his fraternity house by personally visiting graduate brethren. Allowed six months, he required only six weeks...
...there are lots of other members, because the comic-strip Skippy lives in and is syndicated in 85 daily and 40 Sunday newspapers throughout the U. S. But being a Skippy person is different from liking Mutt and Jeff or the Gumps. Skippy goes it alone, for one thing, although he is much younger than most comic-strip characters. Furthermore, there is something about Skippy that makes you feel he does not care whether you are amused or not. Skippy is real to himself...
...Although outhit by the visitors, 10 to 4, the second University baseball team narrowly defeated the Dartmouth seconds yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Fields by a 3 to 2 score...
Interest centers around the highly embossed loving cup that is the Mount Auburn Clambake Award. The metal of this trophy has a delicate green tinge that sets off the bead-fringed wormholes in a most favorable light. The age of the cup has never been correctly estimated, although the Latin inscription "Sie Konnen Mit Mir Trinken" indicates an obscure origin. The winners of it last year were the Cambridge Flying Squadron but it is apparently going to change hands again this spring...