Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected Prosecuting Attorney of Shawnee County. Although backed by many a Wet, Mr. Curtis soon gave notice that he was a Dry, closed the saloons, was reelected. Later, he accumulated a comfortable little income as a criminal lawyer, and in 1893 was elected to Congress, where, except for two years, he has been ever since. In the House he served 14 years; in the Senate he is now on his 17th...
...Yale game will be the sole $5 affair on Harvard's 1927 list. The Dartmouth and Pennsylvania games will cost $4 a seat next fall, while the Purdue, Holy Cross, Indiana and Brown contests will be $2 games to all except season-ticket holders...
...Since bacteria can not be restrained from crossing the borders of nations, the various countries of the Old World can not protect themselves unless they co-operate. The health department of the League Includes representatives of all the nations in the world except Albania and Portugal...
...work with me, whether in opposition or in alliance." That seems to me a rewarding outcome of a long asociation. the other is your remark about my relying "on the Eternal for personal strength." I belong to the barest of the religious communions, and I am by nature reserved except with intimates and even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible to a close observer in my official career. I should not like to have it said by the next generation...
...marry early. Such was his last official appearance before the University he had built. Up to the last few years of his life, he was still to be glimpsed occasionally, and at very important functions, a few embarrassed undergraduates have had the privilege of stuttering before him. But except for these, the undergraduate of this college generation must fall back on the face that so serenely looks down upon the Faculty Room, and on the estimates of older men who knew him, feared him, and respected...