Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...
Last week the dream of a 3,000-mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...
Actually, last week, Christner gave Sharkey about two dozen good, annoying pokes. Sharkey outboxed Christner and poked him hard during the last four rounds. Sharkey got the judges' decision and the crowd's boos.* He will also get $100,000 for the Stribling fight...
...anything else. Thus debate on great public affairs was delayed during most of two days last week while Senators argued as to whether they could keep a secret. For, early in the week, some Senator had let out a great Senatorial secret. So far out had the secret got, that it was published in all newspapers served by the United Press. The press hero was United Pressman Paul Mallon, who trained in the Notre Dame journalistic tradition, would never reveal a secret he was not entitled to divulge...
...derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America, landed them in Manhattan...