Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...strange men poking around his farm. They tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...
Lampy then decided to express his opinions on the subject. But Lampy is not a rational creature; unfortunately he has clowned too long to strike the dignified pose of a Superior Court Judge. He could only laugh at Things as They are. To straighten out the creases in his face and put on a sober look was as impossible as for him to write a CRIMSON editorial or a piece in the Alumni Bulletin...
Picked men from the University and Freshman track squads have been entered in the N. E. A. A. U. meet which will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Mechanics Building. Harvard men will face strong competition in the 40-yard dash, 600-yard run, 1000-yard run, and shot-put. A Freshman relay race with Andover, previously scheduled for tomorrow, has been called...
...fencing team will face its second opponent of the season when it crosses swords with the M. I. T. Freshmen foilsmen in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 7 o'clock tonight. Handicapped at the start of the season by the absence of experienced material, the Harvard first year swordsmen have been slow in developing, and as a result dropped last Wednesday's match with Commerce High School by the score of 8 to 1. Only the foils events will be contested in tonight's matches...