Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...
...Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give way to certain Crimson-jerseyed aspirants now close on their heels before the fall campaign advances much further...
...Harvard's roots are in the aristocratic past," he replied in answer to a question regarding the cause of the University's manner of superiority. "Once she has found a good thing she isn't always changing it, and rushing into new things. The elaborate ceremonies around Commencement Time are a fair example of this adherence to tradition...
Murdered. Frank Reed Whiteside, 33, treasurer of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, landscapist; by unknowns, in Philadelphia. Neighbors heard him answer his door bell, heard a shot fired (through the heart), heard scuffling, fleeing feet. Apparent motive: robbery...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...