Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--Stadium Exercises: Ivy Oration, A. R. Blackburn '29; Cheering; Song by Glee Club; Presentation of Class Banner to 1932; Singing of "Fair Harvard"; Confetti Battle...
...French Revolution was beginning to penetrate into England. In the engraving Pitt is steering Britannia in the snugly-built ship "Constitution," between Charybdis, the ministers of the Crown, and Scylla, a towering threatening rock capped by the colors of France. True to her attitude at that time, the fair maiden England is heedless of Charybdis, but is gazing fearfully at the rock and the sea dogs swarming around its base, representing, in ugly caricatures, the famous trio of Fox, Sheridan, and Priestly...
Youngest of the legal technicians to be called was Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30. Brooklyn-born, fair of face. Into three decades Dean Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
...growing naturally in this region. There are thousands of varieties of sugar cane, for example: we see what conditions of soil and culture are most favorable to each. One which we have been developing, "Harvard 12029," is so successful that it is being planted in wide areas and bids fair to supplant the present species...
...dusk, years ago, the onyx clock struck the somber hour of nine and the little fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says...