Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myself to my duties as head of the Department of Commerce." Then he had a hook baited, paid out his line and before sunset had caught five fat dolphin, "one of which," remarked an alert news-gatherer, "looked remarkably like Candidate Willis." As a flashing, gamey kingfish was being drawn in on the Hoover line, up swirled a shark and tore the prize away. Some thought, though none would say it, that the shark resembled Candidate Dawes. After three days, Candidate Hoover abruptly stopped fishing, returned to Washington. Candidate Willis was grimly glad, having arranged for Candidate Hoover to appear...
...composed of Winslow Carlton '29 and H. F. Schwarz '29, has been chosen to meet Dean Hanford at the earliest possible moment to discuss with him the clause number six of Article E on the powers of the Council, which is embodied in the new constitution of the Council, drawn up last fall. It is felt that this change would require essentially the support of the administration. This committee will make its report at the next meeting. The clause causing the difficulty states that the Council has the power "To prohibit any man who shows an indisposition to respect...
More evidence, if more is needed, that the undergraduate at Harvard is becoming also, and primarily, a student, may be drawn from the serious decline this year in the number of men who have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses...
...morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were discreetly drawn. At 9 a. m. next day the curtain parted, and there was Edna Kirby, finishing her toilette, just as if she had been there all night...
...Pasteur Medal was first given in 1898, by Baron Pierre de Coubertui, to be awarded annually thereafter to the successful candidate in a debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics, the trials to be conducted in English. The administration for awarding the prize is in the hands of the French Department of the University, which under the terms of the competition is at liberty to call in the aid of other instructors...