Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather delivering ice to the back-doors of Wheaton, Ill.; and who shall say that the second is false? It seems a wan and flickering fable against the actualities...
...Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, Providence, Portland and Belmont. A dance follows each entertainment, and in cases where the distance warrants it, the trips compose an overnight affair. At least one long vacation trip will be arranged similar to that last year which included New York, Washington, and Hot Springs...
...Coolidge, in spite of the advanced state of the calendar, went walking on a hot day in his straw hat. Said he: "I have resurrected my straw hat; summer isn't over...
...small import. The pupils pay roundly for intensified instruction; they are bound, in common sense, to attend classes. What has conduct to do with passing examinations? And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks? Particularly when some of the boys are rich and spoiled, with a suite at the Taft Hotel, another in New York, and a sleek roadster in the garage; or when they are bumptious zanies anxious to impress the loose-lived...
...have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...