Word: differents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Prendergast, football star. "I am glad to see that the CRIMSON and the Prince are going to play. For certain obvious reasons concerning base running, I differ from the opinion of the majority in predicting a low score...
...will anyone who has in the most casual manner watched the struggle of American womanhood toward Divisional Examinations differ in point of view from the esteemed "Dean". The growth is a dignified and worthy tradition of this Ecole des Femmes merits the praise of less distinguished minds than his. It is in certain minor matters that one must differ with the author of "Not Always to the Swift...
...Weatherhead", which is Mr. Page's chronicle of a French instructor who was neither circumflex nor acute. The remarkable effusion of Anthony Featherstone may be of less interest to some than it is to your reviewer, who knows poor Tony well at college, and who respectfully begs to differ with Mr. Kay's comments on "He Who Believeth". The book-reviews are pleasantly undignified, and Mr. Howe calls Elmer Gantry a nasty old thing and Paul Cocleau the Adolphe Menjou of literature with equal grace. The tilt at the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, by Mr. Abbott, begins with a gloriously mixed...
...smoke in the Holland vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river to test the all-important ventilating system. The announced result: complete success (TIME, March 28). But last week, Chairman John F. O'Rourke of a special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation begged to differ. He announced that the committee had given "serious study and conference to this question." "We believe," he added, "that a great menace to public welfare is involved. The tests so far made for ventilation have been inadequate. . . . The present exhaust openings . . . are totally inadequate . . . we suggest . . . further tests." Autoists crowding...
...economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain politics. They pointed out that a canal through Nicaragua would have to penetrate the mountain backbone of that country where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much...