Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain's former valet, one Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about his daddy's exploits. I'm fair astonished! Blown, as you might say. How could anyone who wasn't at Mons know all the Captain knows about...
Life is never easy, for the Scottish inhabitants of Fair Isle, that rain-drenched pin point of an island in the Shetlands, north of Scotland. Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...
...coast of Wales, to limber up in the sands. Now he is pronounced fit although there were rumors last week that he was coughing and would not run. Eleven years old, a gelding, he was bred in Kentucky but not to race for steeples. He began as only a fair sprinter and passed through several hands before being bought by Mr. Bruce. He had such an unpleasant temper that starters almost barred him. This, perhaps as much as anything, led Mr. Bruce to try him at jumping. He was a success from the start and won the Maryland Grand National...
...theory behind the plan is that of extending into supposedly advanced courses the strict accountability which is needed in elementary survey courses. But this does not work; it is not fair, for example, to the Senior busy with a distinction thesis and the demands of divisionals to load him with small jobs which are wholly foreign to the type of thinking which he must do in his last college year...
...Crimson riders were greatly handicapped by the absence of their accustomed mounts, the 12 best ponies owned by Harvard having been shipped to New York in anticipation of the National Indoor Championships in which the University team will compete next Thursday. The Gunners started off vigorously and held a fair margin throughout the first four chukkers. During the fifth period, however, Captain Crispin Cooke '32 of the Harvard horsemen scored two goals and squared the score at five...