Word: enters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speech. It was before this monument that President Coolidge doffed his hat, shed his overcoat; faced a biting wind, radio transmitters, 150,000 people; orated. His one pronouncement of policy was that the U. S. would not enter the World Court unless the Senate reservations were accepted in toto. He said in part...
Since the Roman Catholic Church does not sanction divorce the alternative of annulling the Duke's first marriage has two effects: 1) It removes any possible taint of ecclesiastical bigamy from his second marriage in Roman Catholic eyes and makes it possible for him to enter that Church. 2) It regularizes the second marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and sets at ease any qualms of her Roman Catholic husband...
That male undergraduates might not, on pain of going without food, enter the dining halls attired in "what are vulgarly termed Oxford bags" (sloppy grey trousers) or other "unseemly" apparel...
Undergraduates enter classes nowadays which are guaranteed to turn them out "sure-fire" playwrights or novelists or short-story writers. They specialize in something, which will bring them speedy fame and wealth, and care little for the pleasures of quiet, leisurely reading. Oscar Wilde said that our youthfulness was our oldest tradition. "It has been going on now for 300 years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will...
...following ordinance that required more vigilance and a nice ability to measure distances rapidly. "When a Freshman is near a Gate or Door belonging to College or College Yard he shall look around and observe whether any of his Superiors are coming within three rods he shall not enter without a signal to proceed. In passing up or down stairs or through an entry or any other narrow passage if a Freshman meets a superior he shall stop and give way leaving the most convenient side if on the stairs the Banister side...