Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark is given according to the total number of points. As a result there are always certain men who have been doing well, who would not even need to attend the examination in order to receive a satisfactory grade. It also means that except for men on the border line between two marks the examination has little significance, either as a possible means of raising a mark or of lowering...
...until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays viewed with scorn by progressive U. S. Negroes...
...frantic competition. In 1912 Ralph De Palma led for 499 miles, broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film of oil squirting in his face...
...only really nasty comments have come from the professionals--an occasional politician, evangelical clergyman and editorial writer--who, of course, have to say what their publics expect them to say, the old line about Lincoln, King George III' and the Declaration of Independence, which does not seem to me to be particularly applicable. I have been an editorial writer myself, and knew that nothing is easier and juicier than to be able to take a high-minded and critical 'one when somebody has told an unpopular truth. As for my younger brethren at Harvard, on the Crimson...
...meet with the Blue at New Haven he took a second in the 220, but through an error on the part of the judges, failed to place in the 100, although crossing the line at the heels of Kieselhorst the Yale star and ahead of both A. E. French '29, and MacDonald, who were awarded second and third places. French conceded his position on the team making the trip to the intercollegiate at Philadelphia to the 1930 man, and it is expected that the newly elected Captain and Kieselhorst of Yale will be the pair to compete against the representative...