Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that his intellect has a punch in it, but not his personality. It is the fist of Carpentier, but the soul of Joe Beckett. One feels that if his intellectual equipment had been at the disposal of any ambitious politician it could not have failed to make its mark, and perhaps a permanent mark, on contemporary politics. . . . He suggests in his appearance that he would like fighting and dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also one of those men on whose clear and fine skin soap...
...little-heralded developments in the Southwest is the establishment by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway of a double or alternate track from Chicago to Los Angeles, with the exception of a level stretch in Arizona now under construction. The completion of the latter will mark the termination of a 20 year effort by the road, will cover a route of 2,231 miles, and has cost about...
...HEAVENLY LADDER - Compton Mackenzie-Doran ($2.50). Mr. Mackenzie has been for some time occupied with the spiritual salvation of Mark Lidderdale. The Altar Stops and The Parson's Progress have already brought him into the Anglican ministry. In The Heavenly Ladder, he has taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace...
...start Macauley Smith of Yale took the lead, closely followed by Tibbetts. The entire Princeton squad followed these two for the first half mile, but gradually, with the exception of Gallagher, fell into the ruck. At the mile-and-a-half mark six of the University, apparently in command of the situation, were grouped a hundred yards behind Tibbetts and the fleeting Smith. From that point Briggs, Captain Tracy of Yale, and Gallagher of Princeton pulled ahead and widened their advantage with each succeeding mile...
...meeting of the second University crew in the Newell Boathouse on Friday afternoon. Charles Francis Darlngton '26, of New York City, was elected captain of the crew. Darlington prepared at St. Mark's School, and rowed at seat six on the 1926 Freshman eight...