Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow till the last half mile, when the pace was increased with Walters of Gore in the lead. Kane and Barker, both from Smith, were on even terms until the finish when the former came in just ahead of his team-mate, Parker and Sweeney from Gore also kept neck and neck most of the way, but Parker finished strongly, winning over Sweeney by inches...
...more effective if applied in some other way. The object for which they were given disappears or is merged in something else, and unless some legal re-interpreting of the will can be done, the bequest unaltered proves to be a mill-stone around the university's neck. The object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while not by any means an extreme of this sort, is an illustration of the legal complications that often follow in the wake...
Edgewood Arsenal is admirably situated for an R. O. T. C. camp. It is located on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad twenty miles north of Baltimore on a peninsula eight miles long and about two miles wide. This territory known as Gunpowder Neck, jutts out into Chespeake Bay between the mouths of the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. The railroad cuts across the entire width of the neck forming the northern boundary of the Arsenal. On all other sides the Arsenal is surrounded by water, affording an excellent opportunity for boating, swimming, and fishing. In addition there are tennis...
...Labor implying more or less bluntly that the most suitable occupation for all such was reclining in the shade of Academies, making paper darts. Mr. Gompers' feeling reflects the old idea,--fonding to become a popular belief,--that a college education is rather a mill-stone about the neck of any one going into business...
...field trip for members of the Geological Club will be conducted Monday April 17, by Professor J. E. Wolff '79. The party will go by train to Devereux, Mass., near Marblehead, arriving at 9.45 o'clock. The day will be spent in studying the igneous rocks on Marblehead Neck. In case of rain on Monday, the trip will be held Tuesday. Any men interested may join the party...