Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arizona's George Wylie Paul Hunt served his State seven times as Governor but his terms were not consecutive and their total length was only 14 years...
...prompt [not necessarily soft] answer turneth away wrath" is a Grew maxim which he would like to see the lumbering State Department adopt. Last week Secretary Hull was out of Washington when the Japanese Foreign Office at length made answer to Ambassador Crew's note protesting Japan's petroleum laws. Acting Secretary of State Philips said the Japanese answer was "vague . . . incomplete . . . unsatisfactory." He hoped to get off fresh instructions to the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo soon. Meanwhile capable Joe Grew pushed on with the job which calls to a diplomat when he is not sure...
Taking an early lead, the first experienced Freshman crew yesterday won the final race of the season by a half length against seven other eights from the Freshman, Varsity, and 150 pound squads...
...clock Coach Haines barked out the starting signal. The boat holding the middle lane, stroked by Meyer, pulled steadily ahead, and held its lead to the finish, winning by a length and a quarter...
...previous letter I pointed out that the Critic, according to its editorial, was evidently planning to duplicate the announced policy of the Advocate. I showed at some length that this policy had been carried into effect, but my words seem to have been in vain as far as convincing Mr. Cherington was concerned. The Advocate is, by no stretch of even Mr. Cherington's imagination, the "organ of a certain specialized literary school," i.e., what Mr. Cherington quaintly calls "T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, & Co." Mr. Cherington should know, after four years of Harvard College, that Messrs. Eliot and Pound...