Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unthinkable. A cricket prodigy, Braddles, now 28, was born in Cootamundra, New South Wales, left school at 16 to devote all his time to cricket, has been the world's most famed cricketer since 1930. Cricket's greatest names before Braddles were England's W. G. Grace, who retired in 1911 after scoring some 55,000 runs in 44 years of play, and Jack Hobbs, British professional, who had scored 197 centuries (100 runs or more in a single innings) when he retired in 1931. Braddles already holds the world's record for individual batting...
...adequate courses or a good grade for an exam given three times a year. Thus for two years the axe of probation is sheathed while the student is presumed to be taking the courses he needs. If there is another year of grace given and if the student's work fails to pass the exam a third time, he must clutter up his Senior year with an elementary language. If there are to be language requirements at all, pressure must be applied at some time, and two years is the longest free-ride safe for the student...
Members of the History faculty have decided to withhold the annual award of books, since they consider that no essay of this year should grace the special collection of prize-winning essays of the past...
...announcing that its January circulation had hit its all-time high of more than 2,900,000 copies. The advertisement also took note of the spectacularly wrong editorial guess which led off the record-breaking January Journal: a frontispiece and full-page color portrait of Edward VIII, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING. . . ." The Journal's coronation story by able Writer Henry F. Pringle and its accompanying pictures of Edward VIII were made up in the autumn. Last week's Journal trade announcement pleaded...
George Santayana has paid the editors of the new Harvard Monthly the compliment of phrasing for them, with his usual grace, the value and purpose of a college magazine, Youth, he says, in the leading article in the first issue, "An Apology for Being Precocious," can bring to experience what experience can not give, and what it too often kills. Youth has the gift of prophecy. It may not know well what is, but it has the right to say what ought to be. It is the time to be radical. "Especially when some storm is brewing in the world...