Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team A, here by a score of 6 to 2. Team B did not score, however, until Charles Devens '32 had retired from the pitching mound. While Devens was in the box he struck out five of the six men who faced him. Phineas Tobe '32, his opposing pitcher, except for the first two innings, kept things well under control. Tobe later on also figured heavily in his team's scoring when he cracked out a home run to deep right...
...conditions revealed by the report, they are very much what might have been expected. Except for men planning to take graduate work and who are definitely settled upon some science or profession, only the vaguest sort of intentions are revealed. It is on this ground that the report urges the creation of the new office of Vocational Guidance to be distinct from both the Student Employment Bureau and the Alumni Appointments Office. But there is another possible interpretation of the vagueness shown by the Seniors in their replies. Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that...
...Court of Claims on a land dispute. Congress granted the permission, but President Coolidge withheld consent. The Indians were last week asking the Supreme Court to validate their permission by denying the President the power to kill a bill by pocketing it, except after a final adjournment of the Congress-that is, an adjournment on a March 4, after a second session...
...There will be no leases or disposal of government oil lands . . . except those which may be made mandatory by Congress.* In other words there will be a complete conservation of government oil for this administration...
Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn...