Word: list
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above such things might spend the time they use in rationalizing their stooping to an action unbecoming in one of high ideals to better advantage. In other words, whether we will or not most of us resort, to cramming. The queer point is that, despite its standardized list of bad points, cramming succeeds to a noticeable extent...
...selection of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hillyer as the two speakers for the annual literary exercises of the Phi Beta Kappa will give the affair a requisite Harvard tinge and at the same time a wider significance, national and even international. They are notable additions to the list of Orators and Poets, which during the long existence of these exercise include many of Harvard's most eminent graduate...
...only one has been for a stag ticket. According to the committee if the present rate at which applications are being received is maintained the usual attendance of 1,000 or so will be equalled this year. If applicants desire to have their names included in the box list they must hand them in before Thursday of this week in order that the list may be printed by Monday...
...drive farther apart the two elements of the Republican party was Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, archironist of the Democrats. Tongue in cheek, he prodded and pummeled the achy joints of the Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams was not once himself "a distinguished insurgent in Massachusetts...
...king's doctors and all the king's nurses who had attended during his illness received recognition in the birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...