Word: beds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every student in the College should wear a paper cap colored with a certain hue to represent the state of the Union from which he comes, the lecture room of Comp. Lit. 12 for instance would resemble an overgrown pansy bed and the paths of the Yard would eclipse the most enthusiastic rainbow...
Within less than six months of the earthquake and tidal-wave catastrophe in Korea comes the fearful shock in Chili, destroying whole towns, cleaving the very bed of the Pacific to such extent that the sucked-in water receded more than three hundred yards from the shore-line...
...since the Civil War. This long term of office, coupled with the general unsettled condition and other issues brought on by the War developed a tremendous reaction. No issue and no candidate could have saved democracy from defeat. The people were impatient. They were ready to turn over in bed and nothing could deter them. Such a sweeping victory is inevitably followed by a reaction, and so this year there will undoubtedly be a reaction from the Republican's overwhelming victory of two years ago. The particular interest in this election is what that reaction will show as forecasting...
...article in a recent number of the "Graduates Magazine" points out the sad lack of private libraries among students, and the resulting traffic in second hand textbooks which flourishes on the Square. The undergraduate no longer dines in quiet with a few "kindred spirits", nor sits comfortably before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into bed...
...apologies in the world, however, could not restrain us, while we were reading the "Tales", from entertaining an almost irresistible impulse to give the author a sound paddling and send him off to bed. If he were not so blatantly precocious, so proudly puerile and so egotistically devilish, he might be bearable for the space of an hour. But he is--and consequently...