Word: crows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-respecting crow would thrust-aside...
...Harvard campus. Harvard bemoans the fact that the followers of John Harvard have no bulldog, tiger, mule. goat, or bear to help the Crimson flash in triumph on the athletic field, and suggests that any sort of a screech, howl, back, growl, bray, bleat, or crow would suffice...
...which Mr. Nichols aseribes to them is beyond reasonable belief. Furthermore, he catalogues these extremists as the type "which regards athletics and social life as the pride and security of Harvard." Just what beneficial effect a change in the presidential chair would have on the football team or the crow or club life is beyond the comprehension of the average mind...
...contest. Grant was running for a second term. At a convention of Liberal Republicans in Cincinnati, Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, was nominated over Charles Francis Adams. Greeley was for high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian...
From the desk of Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in London, to the desk of Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Commissar for Foreign Affairs in Moscow, is about 1,600 miles as the crow flies. By means of the wireless, the brusque message (TIME, Dec. 1) of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Austen Chamberlain, sped across the intervening space in next to no time; and the messages of Georg to Austen sped back by the same route. All this took place within a few days...