Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...
...shop director, the pupils worked at weaving, metal, wood and leather work, drawing and painting. Elizabeth Moos taught Rhythmics and directed academic work: social sciences, then arithmetic and writing, after these reading and so on. The parents met regularly, joined in school activities. The village of Croton watched a bit suspiciously the hatless, overalled, unrepressed children, dashing down to look at local industries, asking grown-up questions. The Croton truant officer was perplexed, too. Once he offered to help round up Hessian Hills truants, along with those from the public schools. He was told that was unnecessary...
...Christian fellowship, and the first thing you know, union is simply a ratification of a condition that already exists." Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, delegate to last year's stalled Disarmament Conference, spoke on "The Church and World Peace." The Federal Council blenched a bit when its old bogey, Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian...
...feature game of the day, Arnold Jones, former tennis captain at Yale, defeated Robert Grant '34 mainly through his well-executed shots. Grant was a bit wild, and seemed to be unable to get a grip on his game. In a long, hard-fought squash match, S. E. Davenport, III '34 wore down his opponent, Phinney, and finally pulled ahead to take the fifth game. Captain J. G. Cornish ocC, lost to the generally superior playing of Harrington, former Harvard player, and member of the Boston squash team that played against the English team in the internationals. The last...
...course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half-year's work, which anyone may take, as a half-course, takes up the important poets Horace and Catullus. Catullus is treated summarily as a tid-bit which may be more thoroughly digested by those who choose to take Latin 1. The Odes of Horace are read and discussed in an almost scholarly manner, and the student is given an opportunity to commit to memory all the more masterly verses of the learned poets superlative erotic and philosophical...