Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been seen in America for many years. His chief claim to greatness lies in his versatility. His best official times in sprints and distances, for example, are the following: 23.2 in the 50-yard free-style, the Australian record; 53.8 in the 100, although unofficially he has done 52.2; 1:22.4 in the 150, an American and world's record; 2:11.2 in the 220, although his best unofficial time is 2:08; 4:46.4 in the quarter-mile (20-yard pool), an intercollegiate record and 4:48.9 in the 440 in a 25-yard pool--both Harvard records...
...wait another three long years until the patronage wolves again became relatively satiated. Certainly the country fervently hopes that Congress will heed Senator Norris warning: "You Democrats said . . . 'We pledge the immediate extension of the civil service.' You had six years' time to do it and you have not done it yet. The word 'immediate', it seems to me, ought to cry out to you 'stop, look, and listen' before you go back to the people again and ask them to have confidence in your platform pledges...
COLLEGIATE DIGEST here presents a picture-and-paragraph story of how the job was done on the Butler University campus, when 300 students and faculty members joined the nation's fight on crime...
...known as a scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...
Since then, automobile tycoons have done their best to wheedle Congress and the President away from any further ideas of anti-trust activity. The National Automobile Dealers Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including...