Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crime. Across the main street leading up to the Kas Durelain in Cairo, Egypt's capital, a street car passed. An automobile flying a small Union Jack drew up: it was the car of Major General Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar (British Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army...
...next minute, seven Egyptian students wearing effendi dress drew their revolvers and riddled the car with bullets. Sir Lee Stack fell to the bottom of the automobile mortally wounded; he had been hit in the stomach, hand, foot. Captain P. K. Campbell, aide-de-camp, was slightly wounded in the chest; and the chauffeur, an Englishman...
...this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they are a shrieking anachronism in a college library...
...parked in a field near the Bowl, along with several hundred others. After the game, and soaked to the skin, we anticipated trouble in getting out. Our fears were justified, for we had scarcely moved a few hundred feet when we were stuck in the mud--with dozens of cars nearby in the same predicament. We struggled, and cursed,--got out in the mud and rain and secured two helpers to give us assistance. Football terms are the best description, for we rarely gained ten yards in four struggles. After about an hour of that discouraging work, we heard...
...Board's statistics prove that only two out of every hundred people do any thinking at all. If this be so--and attention to newspapers and street-car conversations would seem to prove it--the proposed school would not be entirely useless, provided the other ninety-eight people were worth bothering about and could be reached. The Board is also alarmed because most of the murders and hold-ups have been committed by young men, as if the initiative of youth, even when misdirected, were something reprehensible...