Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Man's Rubber", a film dealing with the manner in which rubber is gathered in the tropical jungle and the work on the rubber plantations of the East Indies, shows the manner in which rubber is obtained from plants and finally manufactured into the finished product...
...been in office a year when a severe economic crisis struck New England. "Corn would buy nothing", wrote Governor Winthrop. "A cow which cost last year 20 pounds might now be bought for four or five pounds; then, too, many people have gone out of the country, as no man could pay his debts." The more active members of the Board of Overseers returned to England. But for the energetic leadership of Dunster in this crisis, it is probable that the College would have died before graduating a class...
...proportion their commons." But he soon had help in this, and in the teaching, too; for the best men in the class of 1642 were induced to stay on as resident bachelors and tutors until they took their master's degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find him, when representing Cromwell in France, carrying on a two-hour conversation in Latin with Cardinal Mazarin, we may infer that Dunster's College law of 1642, forbidding...
...athletic association magazines and publicity bureaus, highly-paid coaches who have learned their trades thoroughly in schools of experience and theory, and all the rest of the vast modern machinery of athletics are part of the same movement. One can develop this most recent addition to overemphasis, that boogey-man of undergraduate publications, or one can praise the ingenuity of the idea...
...feel more inclined, however, to sympathize with the "man who dropped the punt" and "Riegels who ran the wrong way". These poor fellows had the bad luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...