Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulty of the CRIMSON news competition has been well advertised. It has ben called the hardest of college competitions, and it probably is. At any rate, the editors take rather a pride in thinking so and saying so. The incipient candidate is deluded with no fond fairy tales; he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his soul and body into a nine weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same, and is idiot enough to tell his roommates...
Also on ethical, but not religious, grounds is Judge Ben B. Lindsey's Companionate Marriage, published this autumn. He tries to phrase a solution whereby humans, bewildered in this present strident civilization, can make their practices agree with their professed mores...
...disclosed that over two-thirds of the men were the sons of parents who had over gone to college. Although the report has been non-committally received by the newspapers of the country, receiving no where near so much space as the announcement that the doctrines of Judge Ben D. Lindsey may no longer appear in the papers of several western colleges, the facts seem to be educationally very significant...
Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...
While the four French prisoners captured by Berber bandits last month (TIME, Oct. 31) languished in unknown circumstances, a French emissary and a tribal chieftain, one Sheik Ben Naceur, bargained last week for their ransom...