Word: lees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
...Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson's 1916 campaign) in the backfield. And on the substitutes' bench sat Thomas Cochran (Morgan partner and Director of General Electric) and Ralph Delahay Paine (author of College Years...
...Ambassador, especially to France, he would be most fortunate in his wife. His first wife, Lady Lee Phillips of Memphis, died in 1915. Six years ago, aged 48, he married Miss Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, some 20 years his junior, beauteous daughter of a rich and celebrated ship-building family of Bath, Me. She has borne him four children (the fourth arrived last month [TIME, May 6]). There are few things which the French admire more than Beauty, Motherhood, Wealth...
...given out by officials of the Harvard Athletic Association on May 3 should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified in asking Harvard authorities either to make up their minds or withdraw from such vulgar activities as publicity. New Yorker...
Javelin throw--Won by T. G. Moore '29, 187 ft. 10 in.; second, V.M. Harding '31, 187 ft., third, Lee...