Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...races themselves take place in three divisions, each of 12 or 13 boats and starting at intervals of an hour. The order of starting is handed down form year to year...
...this wedge, the captain stood at midfield with the ball. The remaining ten men formed in two lines, the five lighter on one side, the heavier on the other, extending back diagonally across the field. At the signal the two lines ran forward, converged at the captain's post and kept on in a diagonal direction, gradually turning to form a wedge behind the apex of which the runner was safe for a 20 or 30 yard gain...
...even as top typography and woodcuts, on the once popular Poor Richard's Year Book, this volume contains as much information as its prototypes. It is, besides, brought right up to date, so that the information contained between the covers represents, as far as possible, a collection in permanent form of all standard subjects for tea and dinner table small talk provided by such magazines as Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, with even a touch of the Hound and Horn...
Personalities, on the whole, form the chief traditions of each college gen- eration. Professor Sophocles, with his cockerels and pullets in his study, each named after a Professor's wife, is not entirely forgotten. Miss M.R. Jones, known as Mr. Jones, keeping shop in the Square with a sign in front of her cakes and confections: "Gentlemen will not, others must not, touch," and John the Orangeman are still historic figures. But there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon...
...Mackenzie is a newspaper man. His stories smack of the copy desk, and have all the snap of a star reporter. But their present appearance in book form makes possible, in addition, a more finished and artistic treatment than is allowed by the exigencies of a first edition. There is included a wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor...