Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth annual Sears Prize of $100, offered by Mr. Richards Sears '91 for the best discussion on some political question, has this year been won by Hugh Langdon Elsbree '25 of Preston Hollow, New York. Paul Whitcomb Williams '25, of New Bedford, was awarded the second prize of $25. The question of the oral argument this year was "Are the Safeguards Surrounding the Amendment of the Federal Constitution Sufficient...
...first time in five games the University quintet emerged victorious Wednesday night, trampling on the Rhode Island invaders to the tune of 34 to 17. The Crimson cheers were rather hollow, however, for the visitors made the sorriest showing seen at Hemenway for some time...
...treaties negotiated at the Naval Limitation Conference in the autumn of 1921, particularly the four power Pacific pact, which was not ratified until President Harding told the Senate, "Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery." The same state of mind thus far has prevented ratification of the Harding-Hughes proposal that the United States adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice, on conditions carefully devised to avoid membership in the League of Nations, although Mr. Harding declared "it is in harmony with platform pledges...
...Scott Club representatives had the assistance in the preparation of their brief of Wayland Hayt Elsbree 3L of Preston Hollow, N. Y., Irwin, Seymour Rosenbaum 3L of Cincinnati, O., and Benjamin Isadore Sperling 3L of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The members of the Gray Club who aided the preparation of the complainant's brief were Thatcher John Kemp 3L of Los Angeles, Cal., and James Carroll Sheppard Jr. 3L of Fullerton...
This gentleman from San Diego has informed a prominent Eastern newspaper that he holds in the hollow of his hand the realization of the superman of Shaw and Wells. In fact he has been holding it there for fifteen years, but no enterprising magnate has had the energy to remove it and put it to work". The recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry...