Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of this remarkable literary figure has been, in the main, uneventful. Andreyev was born in 1871, and from the time his father died, while he was a student in the city high school, until his graduation from the law department of the Moscow University, at the age of twenty-six, he suffered greatly from the lack of means, discouragement leading him three times to attempt suicide. For some time he supported himself by painting portraits, practicing law, or newspaper reporting, reading insatiably always, until 1898, when he began his literary career. In 1901 Andreyev became famous through the publication...
...judging by the present, is stocked to suit the angler in research: Those who wish for the ordinary text books in the more popular courses must buy them, or read for an hour at a time the single copy provided by the University's appropriation and reserved in the Main Reading Room. In most courses, it is true, there are other copies, but their number depends entirely on the generosity of individuals. None of the money set aside by the University for the use of the Library may be expended in the purchase of duplicate copies of any text book...
Half an hour after the main contest a consolation race will be run off over the same course between Combination crew 1, Freshman A, and the Freshman 150-pound eight...
...field in the Stadium yesterday prevented Coach Fisher from holding a regular scrimmage as had been planned, and unless the gridiron dries off before this afternoon no more scrimmaging will be held until after the Princeton game for fear of serious injuries which have been in the main avoided this season...
...more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work on mandates and minorities were the main business...