Word: arens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presuming, however, that neither compulsory swimming nor corrective exercise is necessary, and for 95 per cent of the Freshmen they aren't, there are a host of other sports. Leading the list in publicity, if not in popularity, is football. After that comes cross country, soccer, singles sculling, tennis, swimming, squash, crew, with fall track, fall baseball, and impromptu touch football filling in the remaining spots for autumn recreation...
...believe your footnote is in error when it states that Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Pershing were the only full generals in the history of the U. S. Of course, I realize that temporary generals such as Summerall, MacArthur and Craig aren't really generals in the fullest sense, but I have always been led to believe that one George Washington was a full general. You may wriggle out of this apparent error on the grounds that when Washington was general the U. S. proper did not exist except in the form of the loose Confederation of States...
...enforcements rushed up to relieve the garrison. Meanwhile wounded Chinese had set off in rickshaws to receive treatment at Peiping, only a 14-mi. run for sturdy Chinese rickshaw coolies. Several of these wounded Peace Preservation Corps heroes were asked by correspondents. "But why did you turn against Yin? Aren't you and he supposed to be pro-Japanese...
...After all, aren't we Chinese?" replied the wounded heroes. Yin meanwhile had completely disappeared, murdered, according to Chinese, by his own men, safe in hiding according to Japanese. The Yin regime had always been carefully described by Japanese as a strictly "spontaneous, autonomous state set up by Chinese"- but after "General" Yin vanished the Japanese commander in North China, Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, made no bones about officially appointing Yin's successor, put in an even more abject Chinese stoolpigeon for Japan, one Mr. Chi Tseng...
...were talking about irresponsible union officials," continued Senator Guffey. "Maybe that's one reason your employes don't want a verbal agreement with you, feeling that if you would give confidential information you aren't responsible either...