Word: close
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good deal left. I'll say it's a great game, but believe me you can't get much rest. The last few years that I have been in it have been plenty full of all kinds of excitement. They never really got me but they've come pretty close sometimes. Look at that. See right along the middle of that finger where that scar is. I got that one night out on the road. Yeah a bunch of 'feds' were chasing me and one of them took a shot. It broke the windshield of my car and grazed...
Last night the week long mystery of the Yale Fence came to a formal and very appropriate close. Harvard's famous jester has completed what promises to be a famous jest, and those upon whom the trick was turned have availed themselves of that grace which is too often overlooked in the heat of an unpleasant moment. To laugh when the joke is on oneself only makes a good thing better...
Richard Watts Jr., the author of the accompanying article, is the movie editor of the New York Herald Tribune. In this capacity he has gained for himself the reputation of being one of the country's leading screen critics. His close connection with the motion picture industry through the recent period of its change from silent to sound production makes him peculiarly suited for the task of tracing the trend of the "talkies...
...arduous drive of the 1929 football campaign has ended. Yesterday afternoon's light offensive and defensive drill brought to a close the preparation of Harvard's gridiron forces for tomorrow's climatic struggle with the powerful eleven from Yale...
...note from this tabulation that the smaller colleges of New England, Amherst, Williams, Brown, and Bowdoin, enter more graduate students in the Business School than do many of the larger universities of the country, with the exception of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and that the Williams delegation is close on the number of Princeton men here...