Word: chaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's something blessed about Spring Vacation. Whether it's because it comes at the middle of the term,--too far along to remember the late unpleasantness at Midyears, and yet not so near as to make a chap start shaking in his shoes about Finals,--or whether it's just because it's spring, and the flowers and birds and breezes are out and the sun doesn't look at you slantwise, we don't know. But the fellow who invented Spring Vacation deserves a halo and a crown of gold...
...reports last week that Mongol hordes have now established a. new Japan-controlled autonomous nation in Chahar Province "similar to Japan's puppet-state of Manchukuo," are calling it "Mongokuo." This territory, wedged between Manchukuo and Suiyan Province, is roughly the size of Ohio, has its capital at Chap Ser. Another slice of China has thus nearly if not quite been added to the Japanese Empire...
...versatile and vivacious chap...
...writer has received about 600 letters during the past four years from classmates and only in two instances can he recall any note of discouragement, even though some were forced into such work as building birdhouses, lifeguarding, etc. To show you how they went after jobs: One chap in New York pestered the personnel manager of a large New York concern so much that the latter finally hired him to handle other pestering college graduates...
...That Egyptian piece turned up in Paris very mysteriously," continued Dr. Barnes. "No one seems to know when or how it got out of Egypt. I was thunderstruck when I saw it. The chap who had it had been over to London with it but the British museum couldn't raise the money...