Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married graduate students have been just completed. The site of the graduate homes occupies a half acre of land facing on Mr. Vernon Street and lying between Sparks Street and Doane Street. The grading and landscaping of the grounds are still in progress but will be completed this fall...
...meeting of the men who had played in the games with Andover and Exeter this fall, William Wetmore of New York City was elected captain of the Freshman football team for the present season. Wetmore is first-string quarterback on Coach Casey's 1930 eleven, and has been playing a strong game, calling his plays with shrewdness and advancing the ball well when the Crimson first year men were on the offensive...
...want her Wilhelm to enlist in the Army for twelve years, as all German soldiers must, under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Princess Cecilia desired instead that the so gallant General should wink at the presence of her son with the Ninth Regiment during the Reichswehr's fall maneuvers (TIME, Sept. 27). Of course this could be arranged...
Vicissitudes. The events of the twelvemonth group themselves naturally about the rise and fall of the great Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu -no stranger to such vicissitudes. A year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
...walls of the exposition buildings are likely to find them unfamiliar; they are pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of Fran...