Word: aridities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rightful heritage as an institution for recognized professional training. In the past it has received far less financial aid than the other graduate schools in Harvard, and for some time it looked as if it would be just another case of the flower wasting its sweetness on a very arid desert air. Fortunately this impression has now been proved unfounded and the school is being offered some materials and opportunity for development...
...good team even without Alton Marsters, Dartmouth made the first touchdown. Then Cornell picked up a couple arid kicked the goals. Dartmouth got another but was still behind. In the last 60 seconds of the week's most exciting game, the Dartmouth backs plugged out a touchdown the way they do in football movies. Dartmouth 18, Cornell...
...project covers almost every square mile of arid area in Turkestan down to the Afghanistan boundary and northward to the 42nd parallel, which is at the mouth of the Amudaria River, and includes the great plains over which Tamerlane, Alex ander the Great and other warriors marched their conquering but weary hordes...
...have customs changed in the matter of interior decorations of college rooms. A few empty gin bottles, a stein or two, felt pennants of other colleges (those of rival institutions usually upside down) and books with titles that promise a world of arid fact within...
...years of furious guerrilla fighting no one ever "got" General Augusto Calderon Sandino, though at last this slender, sallow, wild-eyed patriot was driven from Nicaragua after his men had killed 21 U. S. Marines (TIME, March 12, 1928). Last week a roving correspondent found Sandino in Yucatan, the arid Mexican state which bulges like a sand blister out into the Gulf of Mexico...