Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never known a man who worked so hard. Then, too, he is one of the fastest walkers I know. It is extremely difficult to keep pace with him. All his movements are nervous...
Incredulous folk found more interesting than these holy doings the hard fact that in New Delhi, India, last week, the Indian Legislative Assembly rejected (53 to 24) a bill which would have made illegal the notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
...Childs' executive office is war, with hard feeling, recrimination and bitter, bitter words. Last week came upheaval, with casualties of one president, one secretary, one legal counsel, one Executive Committee. In their places came a new president, new secretary, two new vice presidents, no new Executive Committee. Victorious, at least temporarily, was Founder William Childs, who last December was deposed as President and installed in theoretical passivity as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Childs regarded his Chairmanship as no honorary position. Securing a 6 to 2 control of the directors, he last week bodily removed the "usurping" executives and replaced...
...Hill has gone credit from all keen educators for adopting Professor Wood's new forms, for being the first U. S. preparatory school to apply the hard yet merciful rule of college-education for the fittest...
...score of the match was 15-10, 15-12, 15-9, and in the second game Jansen had a ten point advantage before Iselin managed to score. Jansen's corner shots mingled with hard drives kept Iselin on the defensive most of the time...