Word: non
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every Freshman is compelled to take some form of athletic exercise, but there is no compulsion to force him into any one of the host of non-academic, non-athletic pursuits which the University offers. Writers, tragic, comic, and journalistic, executives and managers, musicians and singers, actors, flyers, linguists, and riders of all sorts of hobby-horses can find a niche in the life of the college outside of the lecture room and athletic field...
...today the Student Advisory Committee reaches its period of full activity. Several advisors will be in each of the Freshman dormitories for lunch and supper today and will remain in the common rooms after the meals to talk with all first year men who may want advice on any non-scholastic subject...
...stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal Republican friend, Hon. R. B. Creager, be able to hold their jobs and thus continue to dictate the destiny of a huge and ever-increasing tax roll...
Those Americans were Dr. Eckener's hope for his Ersatzgas. The only lifting gas which he has available in Europe is hazardous hydrogen. Helium, non-inflammable, although not as efficient a lifter as hydrogen, is the only substitute which he knows of, although industrial scientists are searching for others. Helium is a natural U. S. monopoly. By devious corporate interrelations and by performing an air service for the U. S. public, he expects his U. S. collaborators to get him his gas substitute...
Most important of the contests was the race for the Harmsworth (British International) trophy, held since 1920 by wiry, grey-haired Garfield ("Gar") Wood, "The Silver Fox." Piloting his new Miss America VIII he won the first heat, established a non-straightaway record...