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Word: earls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is balm for the broken spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE THE PEERAGE? | 4/24/1924 | See Source »

...Earl Brown, the left-handed twirler whose wildness marred his showing in the Columbia game, is Coach Slattery's choice for mound duty this afternoon. The Crimson director feels that Brown has more on the ball than any other of his pitchers and he expects his control to improve with action. Columbia found him practically unhitable, and but for his wildness and his teammate's errors, the result might well have been reversed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE WILL PRESENT FULL POWER TODAY | 4/23/1924 | See Source »

...request of Premier Jan Christian Smuts, the Governor General of South Africa (the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary) dissolved the Parliament of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: U. S. A. Crisis | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...Earl Evans '25 and S. M. LeGendre of Princeton will not be eligible for football next fall according to an agreement reached between Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, Professor C. W. Kennedy of Princeton, and Professor C. w. Mendell of Yale, chairmen of the athletic committees, of their respective universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and Princeton Lose Man Apiece From 1924 Football Prospects as Evans and Legendre Are Declared Ineligible | 4/4/1924 | See Source »

...decided that Legendre of Princeton is eligible for another year of University football, Earl Evans '25 and Milstead, Stevens, and Neale of Yale will also be eligible," declared Major F. W. Moore '93 when questioned about the recent action taken by the Princeton authorities in permitting Legandre, fullback of last season, to play again next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS 3 YEAR RULE DOES NOT COVER LEGENDRE CASE | 3/29/1924 | See Source »

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