Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads the record of the government in the prosecution of these most important criminal cases. Justice has been lagging and poor men are led to believe that the law winks kindly upon rich men. The black mark of failure to clean its house of corruption has been indelibly shamped on the government...
...families of Harvard graduates average only 1.6 children, it was shown by the statistics. Yale graduates better this mark with an average of 1.7 children...
...severance of all athletic relationships between Harvard and Princeton, although accompanied during the past two weeks with many a bitter innuendo, may well mark a useful milestone in the progress of football, the game which caused all the trouble. For at the bottom of the break lie two important principles, new in the athletic management of universities, which the Harvard authorities had courage enough to advance and stand firm on. The first is the shortening of the football schedule: the second, abolition of a series of practically fixed games, each one of which was turning year by year into more...
Three Cambridge performances instead of the customary two will mark a departure in Pi Eta policy to be made for the first time this year. The opening presentation, at the Pi Eta Clubhouse on January 15, will be a private performance for graduates only, but the succeeding performances on January 17 and 18, also at the Clubhouse, will be open to the public...
...more than anything else to the shock which he experienced when he realized that the story of Franklin entering Philadelphia eating a roll and with another under his arm,--a story told him when a small child and constituting his only knowledge of the statesman--was, as Mark Twain points out, not such a wonderful thing after all. Anyone could have done...