Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tonight by your vote you can help Harvard lead the way for a deserved recognition of a popular sport. There are strong indications that if you support the movement, the rest of the Ivy League will follow. But all the followers of the sport join to urge you not to compromise, by placing a premium on stars and a stigma on team cooperation. If you cannot see your way clear to make it a full-fledged major, then keep it a minor...
...next two week swill find a competition between the eight clubs that chalked up the highest rating in the qualifying rounds last term, to see which ones will argue out the semi-finals next term. The finals will follow in the spring...
...Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon the policies the Foreign Secretary wished to follow, had expressed himself in language so disparaging that had the Prime Minister used it to Mr. Eden direct it would have amounted to asking his resignation...
...Luke Pasco, who, blind from five to ten, was led about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
...Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they wanted to believe, he was imprisoned, hunted as a spy, nearly killed. When...