Word: ende
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate defaulted on the tariff bill by voting to end the special session with this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must be paid anyway. Of this amount $151,- 500,000 was voted to start...
Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...
...Mark's, he taught at Groton School, old-lime St. Mark's rival. Every St. Marksman knows that the football jerseys of "Grotties" are laterally striped in black and white. Should the Groton game be won, crepe is hung upon a stuffed zebra at the lower end of the St. Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after...
...perfectly true they do not tell the story. For such prosate benefits make no mention of the thrill of appearing in print, of the satisfaction of playing a humble part in the molding of undergraduate opinion, and of the lasting pleasure of companionship while working for a common end...
...Harding '31, Harvard end who was seriously injured in the Yale game, is doing well, it was said last night at Stillman Infirmary, where the linesman is recuperating from an operation performed by Dr. T.K. Richards...