Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long the butt of criticism from students and professors, the degree of cum laude in General Studies is on the point of being abolished or radically altered. Committees from the faculty and the Student Council, having considered the question, are postponing action on it until next year, when presumably an entirely new and more wholesome attitude will inscrutably have come to pass...
...McLean got one more chance to break the tie. When there were only seven minutes left to play, he sent in a corner kick, low and wide, to his centre, Werner ("Scotty") Nilsen. Nilsen received the pass on his broad Norwegian skull, gave it a resounding butt. The ball sailed past Chesney's long arm for the goal that ended the game, 2 to 1, gave the Westerners...
...Orleans, first of the fourth class of five Treaty cruisers, differs little in length, beam or speed (32 1/2 knots) from her immediate predecessors. But she was built with 10% more electrical welding on her hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation...
...cinema makes this more effective by showing a newspaper headline-"Mrs. Buckley Joyce Thomas captured by China bandits''-which shows that Thomas is still up to his trick of faking stories. A more important change-making Buckley Joyce Thomas the hero of a farce instead of the butt of a satire-is less fortunate but three crack performances (Lee Tracy as Thomas, James Gleason as his secretary, Eugene Sigaloff as Prince Alexander) help make the picture briskly entertaining...
...spaniel was one of the best known dogs in the country, certainly the most famous in Cambridge, and has been commemorated in many magazines, as well as in recent books on Harvard. Phantom was stone deaf, and as such was the butt of many jokes...