Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial goes on to wish a left-handed success to the successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry creature; conscious of his sorriness is pretty amusing to watch. Without their knowing it he has been sorry all along and I for one, have been amused by him. His imaginary figure fitting over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard...
...swung from left to right...
Clancey and Morris, right guard and left forward, respectively, on the Purple team form a strong offensive combination, and were the main-springs of the Holy Cross attack which gave the Crusaders a 30-14 verdict over the strong Dartmouth team...
...expert in armaments. As long as things are left to him, we can expect armaments and more armaments. Only statesmen, who know how to keep the naval experts in their places, who strike out body, with their eyes on a common policy, can give the world what it requires...
...experiment just now with its undergraduates that is highly interesting and the outcome of which is worth looking forward to. At Cambridge the undergraduates, facing mid-years, have since the Christmas vacation been "on their own," no classes having been held by the Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather...