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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with nothing on. His shoes are size 21½ and weigh 7½ lb. apiece. His collars are size 24, his hats 12¾. He used to be a wrestler but switched to boxing because he found no one willing to wrestle with him. Once at a country fair, annoyed by a strongman, he picked the strongman up, spanked him, was hailed as a fighter. He has fought a year and one-half, won 14, lost none. In the U. S. he will be managed by one William Duffy, sly Manhattan fixer and his partner Peter ("the goat") Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brobdingnagian | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...students to too great a strain on their higher motives.' Of a hot-tempered professor, he observed, 'You know, Mr. Briggs, that it is easy to touch a match to him.' I remember his showing me certain inscriptions that he had written for an arch at the World's Fair in Chicago. When I asked him whether they would fill what I understood to be the allotted space, he answered, 'Oh, the arch is all covered with women and horses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...disposal of the Employment Office which will in effect confer a subsidy upon the incumbent, athlete or no. As there seems to be no good reason why this should be done, some provision must be made for disposing of the income over and above that necessary for the fair compensation of the men employed on the concessions. At Yale twenty-five per cent of the profits incident to the operation of athletic concessions are set aside in a loan fund for needy undergraduates. This seems to be both a convenient and appropriate solution of the problem and one which might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUBSIDIES AND CONCESSIONS | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Large Fogg Lecture Room Heathcote William Garrod. Fellow of Merton College and Sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford, who holds the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here this year, will deliver the first of his fair lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARROD TO SPEAK IN FIRST NORTON LECTURE TONIGHT | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Power Parley | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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