Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who ever saw the Hoover home at Palo Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...
Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 had no trouble in vanquishing his opponent, but the visitors gave trouble in most of the other singles matches. Arthur Ingraham, Jr. '30, lost the first set of his match with Cleary of Tech, 5 to 7, and then came back after a hard struggle to take the next...
...Ware '30 and Short of Bowdoin provided the only fireworks of the afternoon, the visitor taking the second set, 7-9, but Ware came back to take the third set easily...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...move is of the nature of an experiment and will be given a week's trial starting today. Instead of requiring all single scullers to be back by 6 o'clock as is now the case, the students in the Graduate Schools may take out shells until 6.30 o'clock, provided they are returned by 7 o'clock...