Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bingham recommended the immediate erection of a new stadium or the enlargement of the present plant as the logical answer to the question raised by the condemnation of the old wooden seats. A vote of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers rejected this proposition and forced the falling back on an expedient device. The remedy adopted will be, like its motivating force, one of expediency...
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...venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier and scarcely drier than the rowing men. It is not to be wondered at, then, that the weather forms the first staple of conversation at Oxford; that it is, in fact, the first of a number of interests which the Englishman and the foreigner find...
...Circus Kid. When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...
wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy...