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Word: darke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With an exhibition of moving pictures that will occupy the entire length of his lecture in the Union at 8 o'clock tonight, Colonel H. K. Eustace will describe his recent expeditions in Africa. In the course of 27 years' experience in the dark continent, Colonel Eustace has penetrated the interior of Morocco, Algiers, the Soudan, and all the East Coast territories. In connection with his business of procuring elephant tusks, he searched continually for the "graveyards" of the beasts, which were known to exist because no elephant has ever been found dead of old age, but which had never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. EUSTACE TO DELIVER ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON AFRICA AT UNION TONIGHT | 11/21/1922 | See Source »

...Yale team is more or less of a dark horse in today's race; though it is known to have some excellent men in Vander Pyl and Douglas. The Blue men have, however, taken part in no meets to date, and so there is no way of estimating their power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY, YALE AND PRINCETON IN TRIANGULAR MEET | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...third. Shortly afterwards the Moose left the Grand Circuit for his more familiar woods, and little has been heard from him since. Some commentators have had him dead and others considered his species extinct; but now comes a persistent rumor that he is to return, groomed and fit, the "dark horse" of the next Presidential Derby in 1924. Who will ride him is not announced and the logical man for the job, Senator Borah of Idaho has done his best publicly to disclaim the honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STATE OF FLUX | 11/8/1922 | See Source »

...which the Bishop referred, is the Political Revolution. The overthrow of the Empire in 1911 and 1912 marked the end of a system of government that had existed from time immemorial. China, he declared, is now in a stage comparable to that of the United States in the dark years between the surrender of Cornwallis and the signing of the Constitution. But where America had 13 colonies with a population of two millions, China has 22 provinces, each the size of an European kingdom, with a population one quarter of the earth's total numbers, or some 400 millions. Moreover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEES VAST CHANGES GOING ON IN CHINA | 10/31/1922 | See Source »

Freshmen should be among the first to be helped if possible. Etiquette about dining in the Dormitories is a delicate subject, for great care is necessary in ordering and eating a meal, lest dark clouds of despair overcast an otherwise perfect day. Suppose a meal which could occur any day and show just what Willie, the office boy would do to it. He is selected from all the other contestants as a young man of impeccable manners, at the same time embodying the spirits of Young America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO THE MANOR BORN" | 10/28/1922 | See Source »

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