Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last night. Bingham stated to the CRIMSON that Whiteside's position at present is merely as a member of the coaching staff. He admitted that if matters worked out to the satisfaction of the parties concerned, there was a strong probability that Whiteside would later take over the position left vacant by the recent resignation of E. J. Brown '96, former head coach...
...When war came, he was commissioned a major of field artillery (311th), went to France in July, 1918, fought through the Argonne campaign, won the D. S. M. from the U. S., the Legion of Honor from France. He returned to his corporation law office in 1919, which he left on Aug. 8, 1922, when he was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator William Evans Crow...
Into the Senate chamber shortly before noon one day last week limped William Scott Vare, Senator-suspect from Pennsylvania. His left side paralyzed, he leaned on a cane and the arm of his Philadelphia physician...
These signings were really a triumph for ancient and honorable Elihu Root, U. S. elder statesman who spent a furious fortnight last March smoothing World Court-U. S. differences, drafting the Root Formula (TIME, April 1) which in effect left the U. S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the final diplomatic marriage takes place. The marriage is not yet, the signature of Attaché Moffat was a mere betrothal. There remains U. S. Senate ratification. Washington wiseacres wagered that another year would pass before this is achieved...
...undergraduate logician to do who has solved Kant, chuckled at Leibnitz and written an original thesis proving that Nietzsche was an obscurantist with disguised nympholeptic longings is to take up this course by way of easement. The reviewer sat among scholars from the start. The one on the left took notes in French and German. The two on the right giggled over puns in the original Greek. All of them smiled when hour exams were announced. It was a disturbing atmosphere, although here and there were scattered other strays like the reviewer who like him at once began to compute...