Word: outer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people had seen how it would be, but the actuality sur- passed prognostication. The Chancellor's oratorical census took on a new significance. Capital left Austria in billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens...
...closing weeks of 1918, when the great structure which was the German Empire was tottering to its fall moved by inner revolution and outer defeat, the world wondered what could take its place. Obviously the imperial regime of William II could not be restored in the face of the Allies and the majority of the German people. A new form of government was needed: the Republic was the answer...
...schedule. The whole of last year's foils team was lost by graduation, and lack of experience is liable to prove the greatest handicap to the development of the squad. The swordsmen upon whom Coach Danguy is counting to form the nucleus of his team are Captain R. P. Outer bridge '28, A. C. Lane '27, J. F. Davidson '27, M. R. Berliner '28, and G. H. Umbsen '29, who was captain of last year's Freshman duellers...
True as it is that the Lampoon stands too often in its own shade to need the help of such a sapling, there is a limit to vandalism and that, in the philodendronic sense, is the bark or outer periphery of an Ibis tree. The poor old Ibis has done enough to hurt her breed in the last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation...
...Gilman, 1811, wrote in such fanciful terms of Harvard shining as a star "calm rising through change and through storm," he was nearer the cold, stellar truth than he knew. For there is a star, or rather an asteroid, bearing the name of John Harvard through the outer reaches of the universe...