Word: fair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Takes the fair youth of England fresh from school...
...United States as the Olympic eight. In the two races this year against M. I. T., and Princeton, the Navy had little difficulty in winning by four and six lengths respectively. Due to the varying weather conditions, a comparison of rowing times is seldom of value, but is a fair indication of strength if a similarity in conditions does prevail. In the first time trial of the year on Lake Carnegie, the University eight covered the mile and three-quarter course in nine minutes and 25 seconds. In the Quadrangular Regatta on May 9, the winning Crimson shell was timed...
...next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position which he held for eight years, when he became leader of his party and, nine years after, Premier of the Government. He was the last of the War Premiers to relinquish office, although he more than once came within fair distance of doing so, owing to an unstable parliamentary situation. Newspapers averred that Mr. Massey was a strong admirer of President Coolidge. They met in 1923 at Washington. He was also an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, many of whose speeches, particularly his Gettysburg address, he had committed to memory. He was noted...
...Vanity Fair...
...amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair way to a quiet demise. Glancing through the program, one notes one or two numbers that were composed especially for the club. It seems not too much to hope, therefore, that Dr. Davison's renaissance of serious music may lead to new compositions as well, to a new American literature...