Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack year for national heroes was 1929. The public prints lacked new and spectacular performers to make the public hero-conscious. But the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, only U. S. hero-rewarding organization except the Government, found no dearth of candidates. Last week it recognized 51 acts of heroism, more than twice last year's number...
There is little to be gained now by calling attention to the many contests which regularly take place almost without the knowledge of anyone save the players themselves. Except, that there is a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that, despite cries of commercialism and over-emphasis of athletics, there are a large number of men who find pleasure in organized athletics just for the sake of the game itself...
Uneventful except for the usual bridge and poker games, the trip so far has run as smoothly as would be expected with Harvard's far famed management in charge. Only one cloud hangs over the scene, Eddie Farrell, Harvard's veteran track coach and trainer of the football squad, having been forced to stay behind with what looked very much like incipient appendicitis...
Freshmen in good standing are required to attend their last class before and their first class after all holidays, whether they are one-day holidays or holidays of longer duration. Freshmen in good standing breaking this rule, except on account of illness or some other unavoidable reason, will be placed on probation. Freshmen on trial breaking this rule, except on account of illness or some other unavoidable reason, will doubtless have their trial closed...
Senator-at-large. "A man who receives 15 million votes but not enough to be elected automatically retires to private life and leaves the 15 million unrepresented except in so far as their senators and their congressmen are concerned. As a remedy, I suggest that we can amend our constitution to provide that the candidate for the presidency who receives the second highest number of votes should be entitled to a seat in the United States Senate as a senator-at-large during the term of his successful opponent. ... He would naturally become the leader of the minority party...