Word: lone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most people associate the battle of Bosworth Field with Richard III's offer to barter his kingdom for a lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan...
...Lone night watches on the bridge, five-hour stretches in the engine-room with the temperature at 116 degrees Fahrenheit, systematic investigation and study of the innards of a light cruiser and the workings of those innards, were part of the program outlined for the members of the Naval Science Unit from the University who took a brief cruise down the Atlantic seaboard early last summer...
Bears. The U. S. Senate nearly lost its entire farmer-labor bloc lately. So the country learned when Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, lone farmer-laborite showed his friends some cinema films last week, taken by him on his vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead...
...prospects for abundant wingmen of high calibre have indeed looked so bright that S. C. Burns '30, former schoolboy and Freshman star, has been transfered to the backfield, and W. G. Saltonstall '28, lone Crimson scorer in last year's Bowl encounter, has been enabled to devote his entire time to his multiple official and scholastic duties. G. K. Brown '28, who was one of the leading end prospects until yesterday, has been shifted to the backfield where he will be given a try-out at quarter...
...plan was successful, and has been extended and adopted with various ramifications in most of the departments of undergraduate study. With the introduction of the experiment into the Division of Biology last year, the tutorial system made its debut in the scientific field. Physics and Chemistry are the lone departments not yet in the tutorial fold...