Word: clips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting at a fast clip, the Yale team held the lead during the first mile. Then a Crimson group passed their opponents, but Captain W. F. Smith of the Elis kept a long lead over the field. Following him at about 50 yards Hallowell watched Smith until the last two miles, during which he edged up steadily, and passed the Yale leader with the finish in sight, winning finally by ten yards...
...Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust Co. He was made president, soon opened many branch offices, piled up resources at a terrific clip. In 1926 the Buffalo Trust and the Marine Trust merged-and Banker Rand was elected president of all that...
...traveler from Washington to Cape Town, Union of South Africa, must journey 11,136 miles if he goes by London; 8,034 miles if he goes direct. To clip 3,102 miles off the diplomatic distance between Washington and Cape Town, to bring the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. into closer relation, steps were taken last week for an exchange of ministers such as the U. S. now conducts with Canada and Irish Free State. The U. S. approved the appointment of Eric H. Louw as South Africa's first envoy to Washington...
...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...