Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
...under the direction of Coach Drohan, and should be in excellent early season form for the game today. Tilton, however, is expected to offer stern opposition to the first year men. In Captain Woods, right guard, and Simpson, left forward, it possesses two veterans who caused the Freshmen a lot of worry in the game last year which 1927 won after a hard fought contest 15 to 9. Holmander, Tilton's center, has attracted a great deal of attention already this year by his sparkling offensive work...
...Premier Ahmed Zogu, who recently began to joust with the Bishop Premier and Harvard Graduate Fan Stylian Noli, in an effort to oust him (TIME, Dec. 22), won the tournament. Premier Noli, with his cabinet, general staff and "a lot of money," fled the country last week into Italy and was Premier no more. He charged that Yugo-Slavia had aided Zogu...
...months ending Oct. 1. Of late, they say, Mr. Curtis' motto that "nothing succeeds like success" has begun to justify itself. Since October, the figure has jumped to 38,000 and the Post "has utterly outgrown its present quarters." It has bought a city lot. It will build a spacious new mansion. It "will not keep its readers and its advertisers waiting a single moment longer than it must for the larger and better product it will be able to create in its own specially planned building...
...Football Coaches Association meeting, which takes place on December 29, is likely to produce a lot of fireworks when the exponents and opponents of the forward pass and other disputed features of the game, clash over a change in rules. Harvard's delegates to this meeting have not yet been definitely decided upon, but Major Moore intimated that among the University coaches who would make the trip, are E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the 1915 football eleven and assistant coach at Cambridge this fall; Coach Knox of the second team: and T. J. Campbell, coach of the Freshman football...