Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parodied a rhymster four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
After going scoreless for four innings, Harvard garned six more tallies during its three final innings at bat. Shoddy baseball by the Hilltoppers and concerted bat work on the offerings of two relief twirlers gave the Crimson its markers...
...Four Rooms for a College...
...courageous. Today it is almost inconceivable that the college was started without endowment and that the resources of its backers were so slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs, who had been graduated from Harvard...
Paris correspondents for American dailies proclaim this the final week of the Reparation conference. If the experiences of the past four months mean anything there is good reason to believe that the correspondents are wrong...