Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peabody Museum's famous Borneo baskets which have kept scientists mystified for over a month now, gave their followers a new start when it was found early yesterday morning that their motion had stopped. The twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded...
...game should be preserved as it is, but the colleges should not let the public bowl interrupt their several theories for developing good teams without requiring more of the players interest and time than the game justifies. Keep the sport-goer out of the stands if necessary, except for the alumnus and undergraduate; but by no means carve up a great game simply because the public looks upon it as a Golden Calf. Yale News...
...proposed Court conference is to obtain from the U. S. an interpretation of Senate Reservation No. 5, which demands, as a condition of U. S. adherence to the World Court, that it shall not render any advisory opinion affecting any question in which the U. S. has an interest, except by consent...
...Harvard Overseers and of the lately-created Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering...
Read every department of TIME except this Quiz. Then turn back 10 page 33. Quiz yourself. To do well, you must correctly answer tit least 80% of the questions...