Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most such Chicagoans send their children to eastern colleges.* But they are city-loyal to the extent of attending an induction ceremony and they respect the aura of culture which the Chicago faculty casts over fashionable Chicago dinner tables.
Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes...
*Still a third who was to have received an L.L.D. was Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. Day before the ceremony, he telegraphed that he was unavoidably detained in Washington. His reason: Constant vigil at the bedside of Secretary of War Good, who died a few hours before it...
Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing...
Tan Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars.