Word: eves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than 100 years ago, the Wahabis captured Mecca, capital of Islam, where is situated the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed. After bloody scenes and wild desecration, the Wahabis were crushed and chased back to their country of Nejd. On the eve of the War, Hasa was taken from the distracted Turk; and before it could be recovered the flaming tongues of the war dogs had licked the world...
Grounds for Divorce causes a husband to neglect his wife, who throws ink at him and deserts. On the eve of his second wedding, she returns to ask his advice, as a prominent lawyer for divorce, on the quickest method of shedding a second husband in order to marry a third. Disturbed at the delay, his new fiancee also throws ink; his wife's husbands turn out to be fictitious; and reunion is effected...
Hard workouts tomorrow and Thursday will be followed by a light practice Friday on the eve of the opener with Hampden-Sidney. And when this game is out of the way the Virginians will have to redouble their efforts in order to be ready for the Harvard contest which is to be played at Cambridge on October...
...fearful, further inventions have made it feared. When fighting means certain, agonizing death, no man will fight; and since Science has become, like Death, all-efficient, it is, like Fear, a deterrant to destruction. Sir Max Muspratt spoke. His was a gasconade: "Through Chemistry, man is now on the eve of the most amazing civilizing development in History. Witness phosphates. In days of ignorance, every dead cat was an engine of nitrogen production, every field had its own fertilizer hanging over it, and men of science knew it, but could not use their knowledge. Now we get nitrogen...
University track prospects suffered a severe jolt when it became known on the eve of the opening of the College that R. G. Allen '26, star middle distance runner, will not return to College this year. Allen and R. L. Brooks '26, another track man, will leave this country shortly for a trip of a year or more around the world. They are making the trip as the guests of Lord and Lady Astor, the latter being Brooks aunt. Before sailing from San Francisco for the Orient in mid-October they will be the guests of Douglas Fairbanks...