Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Courtney was a remarkable crew coach because he knew a racing shell from bow to stern and his men from head to heels...
...Wilbur and Admiral Hughes, believed this gossip, they smiled pleasantly enough at a ceremony outside the White House, when President Coolidge bestowed the Congressional Medal on Commander Willis M. Bradley for World War heroism. Commander Bradley is a big man. In dropping the medal over Commander Bradley's head, and clasping the ribbon-ends behind, President Coolidge adroitly surmounted (and cameras recorded-see col. 2) a difficulty often encountered by Chief Executives when they are called upon to decorate towering pillars of the national defense...
...often sat late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle through the body. The 100 doctors wore full dress...
With Commencement only a month a head, business firms have been applying to the Student Employment office in University Hall for students to fill permanent positions. The openings afforded are in firms ranging from insurance and banking corporations to fruit and sugar producers in the tropics...
...called Sin had not yet been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny...