Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard track team, coached by W. J. Bingham '16, and-starting the season with poor prospects of success, staged a series of upsets in the Yale meet on the Stadium cinders to gain a hard won victory. This year again Harvard prospects of triumph over the Blue seemed dim at the, beginning of the season. Strength in the running events had carried the Crimson to an intercollegiate title early in March, but the preponderance of the New Haven aggregation in the weights and jumps was a little use in indoor competition...
...personal rights in connection with prohibition please step forward? Oh, you are silent, are you? I should like to call your attention to the fact that the world's best minds, from Moliere and Le Sage to Bernard Shaw, have valiantly resisted the efforts of the medical fraternity to gain control of the lives (and the deaths) of men. The fact that there were only twenty-two cases of small pox in the entire state of Massachusetts during last year had nothing to do, I suppose, with the proponents of this latest measure. What is the excuse...
...glider, as everyone knows, is a small, motorless, extremely light-weight airplane. It usually takes the air by coasting down a hillside to gain sufficient momentum. A more modern method is to hold the glider steady, attach to its nose a shock cord made of rubber bands. Tension is applied to the shock cord and, on a given signal, the glider is flipped suddenly into the air like a pebble from a slingshot. An automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around...
Uliman and Jones Gain...
...clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...