Word: blowings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the championship of the Class B division of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association in sight and only three more games in which to overtake the faltering leaders, the fast coming University second team suffered a serious blow to its hopes when it was announced yesterday that T. E. Jansen '26, number one player, has been declared ineligible following a protest from the other teams in the league. The star Crimson performer is first substitute for the University team played in two of the Class A matches earlier in the season...
...blow was comparatively a light one to a New Yorker, but Anthony Hope winced. His eyebrows lifted just a little and on his lips rested the enigmatical smile that Leonardo da Vinci immortalized on Giaconda...
...Rumors were shelved, as the Finance Committee of the Chamber played a concrete trick on M. Briand by voting to reject the keynote of the Briand-Doumer measure, the increased "indirect taxation." This was regarded as a body blow to Briand, since in order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee...
...well known 'inferiority complex'. Ordinarily this is merely a stage through which the young man of average ability passes when he first comes into the realization that his early dreams of fame which are the common property of all youngsters, are not materializing. Usually he recovers after the first blow and reconciles himself to making the most of his talents. If he doesn't, the result often becomes tragic rather than humorous...
...main detriment to education in the south," he said, "is, of course, the negro situation. But we are still going through a period of reconstruction, South Carolina was the most trampled on state in the South, and received a hard blow. Nevertheless, our small colleges are making rapid progress, and producing some powerful intellects...