Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans are under way now for the launching of another trip, to be mad during the Easter vacation, and to include New York and points East. The choice between Hartford, Providence, Springfield and Worcester has not been made yet. This trip, to take in only three days, will mark a big step forward in the progress of the club, as it will be the first time that two visits have been made to foreign territory for more than a day in the same college year! Southern trips were made in Easter of last year, and in the recent Christmas holidays...
...deeper. Workers were lowered in wicker baskets from the surface to cut out the blocks. The rock far below proved to below proved to be less solid than at the surface and big chunks flaked off and were dislodged by the baskets. Finally on March 7, the 100 foot mark was reached and still the bottom was not attained. Tapping on the wall the workers discovered a hollow sound, however, and correctly assumed that the shaft went down by one of the great chambers...
...world pays just as much as the American, and incidentally, seems to be objecting to doing so. "In these circumstances I hope you will agree with me that the words extortion, holdups, gouging, etc., which have been frequently used in this connection, are, to put it mildly, as Mark Twain said of the reports of his own death, perhaps a trifle exaggerated. If, to quote an old English proverb: 'Soft words butter no parsnips,' neither are hard words milch cows from which we extract the milk of human kindness...
...that he is the same stellar performer of past seasons, when he overcame an early lead obtained by Leo Larrivee, last year's winner, and beat him to the tape by 60 yards. Tibbets was satisfied to let Larrivee set the pace for eight laps, passing the quarter-way mark in about a minute. However, on the eighth round, Tibbets went out in front, although his lead did not become commanding until the two men had run around the oval twice neck and neck. At that point Larrivee saw that he was defeated, and dropped behind...
...tutorial system to Harvard. Heidelberg dropped from sight. Nor could the chaos which followed peace in Germany prove any more tempting to foreign interests than the state of actual war. Sofa to say, that America would ever treat with importance the conditions extant in German universities while the mark was tied to a toy balloon...