Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Dartmouth is about to do has been tried from several different angles in other institutions. The honor students of Swarthmore and Williams and the fellowship system at St. John's are all moves of a kindred spirit. Perhaps in the working out of the autonomous plan at Antioch can be seen the best example of what may be expected from this latest innovation. While there have been no complaints of flagrant abuse of the liberties enjoyed, it has been pointed out that a certain degree of the freedom has not been without its disadvantages. A working plan of study...
...Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor to the Royal House. The disgruntled Prince, recently promoted to the rank of Colonel and stationed in Turin, balloted morosely in company with his brother officers. Of the 9,650,570 males qualified to vote (females having no franchise), 8,506,576 voted as II Duce wished, only 999,830 stayed...
...Tuesday, therefore, fully 150 people crowded into the factory loft. To honor the holiday, and the educational-propagandal film from Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking cigarets, while a friend riotously cranked the projector in the doorway and ribbons of celluloid spewed from the machine and lay curled on the floor. The butt of Operator Bazarnov's cigaret fell to the ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov...
...bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
...Savings Bank is the tallest building in Brooklyn, N. Y. Its deposits total $225,000,000. Passers-by were puzzled, last week, to see, high on the outer wall, a sculptured grotesque of a peterman (professional argot for bank- robber) with his dark lantern. Why should a bank thus honor its immemorial enemy? Further along was the moral answer, an other image of the peterman - behind the bars