Word: hill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
...Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses me!" . . . Louis W. Hill, Board Chairman of the Great Northern Railroad and son of its founder, the late, great James J. Hill, jumped for joy and led cheers on the Smith platform in St. Paul. . . . Senator Shipstead, the duck-hunting dentist, the Farmer Laborite, was friendly-and then reported "hurt," "alienated." . . . Milwaukee went wild...
Friday afternoon an inter-dormitory cross country meet for Freshmen will being at 3.30 o'clock. This first organized meant of the hill and dale season will be short race, one and a quarter times sound the iron fence of Soldiers, Field...
...freshmen were indistinguishable from all other freshmen. Queer and foolish in their actions, they scuffed off to their collegiate rooms a mile away from the "hill." Here they would play their victrolas, tinkle their absurd pianos, sing perhaps a parody of a song whose heroes should be Frankie and Meiklejohnnie, and even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about...
...there had been several excited meetings of the trustees, that Dr Edwards had offered his resignation voluntarily more than once, that finally the debates ended in amity. To the younger alumni it was enough to know that Dr. Edwards was now headmaster of Mercersburg, and to remember that The Hill School is also The Hill School Corporation, that financial reasons are often inscrutable and equally often sound...