Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mustachioed, had played a different game from theirs, a waiting game. Redskin ancestors on his grandmother's side had doubtless played the same game often. Out hunting with other braves, a good plan had been to let the others stalk, and perhaps frighten, the deer, which then would come along the runway where an artful man sat ready. The Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas had seen the waiting game work well on race tracks, too. Riding as a jockey himself, he had watched two faster horses wear each other out, then whipped his own mount past them...
...Publisher William Randolph Hearst released a carefully timed, personally signed editorial, pronouncing Hoover to be "unquestionably the strongest candidate from a mere political point of view" and one by whose nomination the G. O. P. "will strengthen itself for many years to come by aligning . . . elements of foreign descent with the party...
Reflecting that all good things come slowly, that Rome was not built in a day, that patience is a virtue, that duty comes before ambition and business before pleasure, etc., etc., Candidate Smith passed a busy and contented last week in his executive mansion at Albany. He functioned in different capacities...
From the lengthening shadow cast by the huge new Chemistry Laboratory as it nears completion come the pleas of the kindred departments of Zoology, Botany, and Physiology where the equipment and building are quite as inadequate as the facilities in Boylston Hall. In a letter in the current Alumni Bulletin Dr. Parker acknowledges that the recent reports of conditions in the Department of Biology have not been overdrawn, and describes the efforts that are being made to remedy the situation. The Departments of Zoology and Botany, he reports, have increased ten-fold in sizee, both in the number of students...
...clubs, a moving one two years ago when the Student Council considered the problem, has since diminished in importance. Harvard club growth has been in the direction of lessening the importance of the club as a social factor. The club that is little more than a dining place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life...