Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom...
...present system of selecting all the Senior class officers by a test of popularity is a custom which should be classed as obsolete. The officers fall naturally into two groups--those which are purely honorary--the marshals for example, and those involving a certain amount of responsibility and work such as the poet, the odist, the secretaries and the various committees...
...offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should not be submitted anonymously so that there might be some room left for choices in personality or if two men have written equally good compositions a certain amount of room may be left for individual preference...
...curriculum, and he had a large share in bringing Radcliffe's resources to a little more than $4,000,000 in 1923. Under his guidance Radcliffe adhered to the policy of counting only Harvard courses toward the A.B. degree, and it shared in Harvard's decision to preserve certain courses as graduate in character...
...Limitation of licensed drinking places. No new licenses to be issued. No beverages of high alcoholic content to be drunk on the premises. No saloons within a certain distance of schools, barracks, factories...