Word: fashionableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy end of the school boy batting order started off in a business like fashion to open the first inning, when Barry singled with one man out, and Pierce drove him in with a hard double. The real scoring began in the Freshman half of the first session, however, when Miyakawa walked, was scarified to second and scored on Donahy's long drive to deep center which went for a three ply blow. Durkee followed the 1929 third sacker with a base hit, McGehee doubled, and Elkins and Prior singled to complete the scoring. The first-year ball tossers chased...
...greet the undergraduate articles on concentration, port of which appear in the news columns of today's issue and the rest of which will be published tomorrow. The public is slowly coming to realize that Harvard students are sincerely interested in their job, are consequently studying it in systematic fashion, are strongly inclined against timidity in speaking their minds, think with reasonable perspicacity, and express themselves with a certain amount of perspicuity. It is interesting to note that in the forty-six issues which the CRIMSON published between September 24 and November 21 the date of the Harvard Yale football...
...Crimson (undergraduate daily) approved the new regulations in this curious backhand fashion: "The function of the University is to produce gentlemen?in the best sense of the term, but the University needs a leaven of students who are not gentlemen...
...give the President what is sometimes called "the low down" on Europe. Senator Harrison found no fault with that. He called the move "all right . . . well, proper and good." What caused the Senator anguish was an interview which Mr. Houghton gave to the press, in accepted White House fashion. That is, he spoke through a "spokesman," a mythical third person whom the President invokes as his mouthpiece, in order that what the "spokesman" says may be contradicted next day, if necessary...
...still carnally innocent. Convulsive fits of drinking throughout his life had been not a cause but a secondary symptom of his deep malady. The operation of this malady, the astonishing dexterity of his subconscious defensive tactics, are traced through all phases of Poe's life in startling fashion-his braggadacio debts at the roystering University of Virginia, his self- inflicted infantry career, his self-arranged expulsion from West Point, his early ecstasies of mendacity, including the lie that during several months spent in obscurity at Baltimore he had experienced morbid adventures in Russia and published a novel (actually...