Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lynd was given preference over graduate applicants for the position due to the fact that the Governing Board realizing that the Union would face a difficult period of readjustment when the House Plan goes into effect, desired a secretary who had been active for a number of year...
...Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell...
...wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker of men. When a Stroud wanted something. Destiny always took a hand; the Stroud got it. This Stroud now fixed upon one Lady Isabel. Her eyes were of "green ice," her hair was golden. She glorified in an expressionless face and almost no lips. Such a woman he would not love, he thought, so much as love to own. In order to own her he sacrificed his cherished friend Stemway who had a "dark soul...
...finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film of oil squirting in his face...
Should Harvard win her opening match she will in all probability face P. M. C. whom she defeated in the final this winter to gain the indoor intercollegiate title...