Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lee Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...Premier of Egypt since the days of Cleopatra. Zaghlul Pasha was compelled to resign as Premier (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) when the British exacted within 24 hours a fine of $2,300,000 gold from the Egyptian Government because seven Egyptian students, later hanged, collectively shot and murdered Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, British predecessor of Spinks Pasha as Sirdar. A year and a half later (TIME, June 7, 1926) the followers of Zaghlul swept to an overwhelming victory in the Egyptian parliamentary election but were prevented by British pressure from making Zaghlul Premier again...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...
...Alumni Adisory Board, especially its Committee on the Sheffield Scientific School, and the Yale Engineering Association have strongly urged the creation of such a department. The students through the 1927 Board of the "Yale Daily News" and its Chairman. Russell Lee Post, also made recommendations for the initiation of this work. The policies of the department of personnel will be under the control of an Administrative Council consisting of the Director, the Provost of the University, the Deans of the undergraduate schools, the Chairman of the Board of Admissions, and representatives of the Student Councils. The new organization...
...appointment of H. F. Schwarz '29, T. D. Howe, Jr. '28, F. B. Lee '29, James de Normandie '29, and John de Laittre '29 to the Student Council Budget Committee was announced last night by C. H. Pforzheimer...