Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress was beginning to hand out Civil War pensions. It gave one to the widow of the Civil War President. Mary Todd Lincoln's $3,000* a year was the first pension for a Presidential widow. Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows-Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, Helen Herron Taft, Edith Boiling, Galt Wilson, Grace Goodhue Coolidge. Last week this polite beneficence was impolitely questioned for the first time...
There will be much sales talk and well-meaning advice filling the air during the next fortnight, and the doubtful soul who takes it all too seriously will spend most of the time changing his mind. But on the other hand, Yardlings obviously cannot walk about blindfolded with cotton in their cars. Quite on the other hand, they will do well to collect all the available advice and take it for what it is worth, for in the end the decision is theirs and theirs alone...
...other Crimson invalid, Red Lowman, although still strapped up extensively, will be able to go in at a starting post, having warmed up his injured arm for a few minutes against Columbia. Princeton, on the other hand, will be in top physical shape, since long absent Captain Vruwink has returned to the lineup...
...victory, as will Don Barker in the 50. Hutter shouldn't have to strain himself in the 100. However, just what the 400-yard free-style relay team will do remains the usual mystery. While the boys will probably be saving themselves for Princeton, they may, on the other hand, feel just like smashing out four breath-takingly fast 100's. Whether they do or not, the boys are certain than any phenomenal times they swim against Navy will impress the Tigers no end before Saturday's meet...
...real furore came when it was President Conant's turn to hand in a report. Seldom have an innocent author's words been so maligned. A group of comparatively intelligent figures on the local scene called it a deliberate attempt "to plough under human brains." One or two of our contemporaries in Middle Western colleges thought it was a proposal to slay the first-born in every family. This was not just what the President meant, but he should have made himself clear...