Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Coolidge served Harvard from 1893, when he entered as an instructor in history, till his death in January 1928. He became professor of history in 1908, and a year later director of the library. Previous to his attachment to the University he had been secretary to American legations at St. Petersburg, Paris, and Vienna; he continued his participation in diplomatic circles for many years, and was recognized as an authority on contemporary politics...
Coach E. L. Casey '19 had general charge of the backfield men and was assisted by A. E. French '29, captain of the 1928 team, who was out helping some of the men familiarize themselves with the lateral pass. Frank Shaughnessy is also coming later in the season to help with the lateral pass...
...which nourished the young sea-woman not at all. No native wet nurse could be persuaded to stay aboard, and Joan was slowly starving when "Stitches," the sailmaker, managed to barter a handful of dried apricots and an old alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce-the Jap colored the food to make...
...superlative terms. Able, persuasive, Durant raised for Buick more than $1,000,000. Now (1906) there was a good time coming, but not for David Buick. There arose arguments, disputes, misunderstandings. After three years as general manager. Mr. Buick left the company he had founded. In the later growth of the Buick Motor Car Co. and in the development of General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make...
...florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...