Word: ox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book perhaps the finest thing a woman ever wrote about...
...gratification. Coxswain of the Cambridge University crew for four years, he had just participated in his fourth straight triumph over dark blue rivals from Oxford. The Oxford eight, conceded little chance to win, was kept in the 4¼-mile race mainly through the heroic efforts of Howard T. ("Ox") Kingsbury Jr. This gentleman, captain of last year's undefeated Yale crew, pulled a mighty oar, shouted encouragement to his wilting shell-mates, kept the winners' margin to an honorable three lengths. The Cambridge time was 20 min. 14 sec.; the course record, held by Oxford...
Their plane, the Travel Air OX-5, was bought last year by the club and was made possible mainly as a result of the generosity of F. L. Ames '28, vice-president, who loaned the club $2000 with which to buy the plane. Since last fall it has been completely overhauled and refinished and last week it was towed to the airport. It was first taken on a trial trip by one of the experienced aviators and when it was declared to be in perect condition Crocker Snow 1L., without a parachute, took her up for a twenty minute solo...
...England, Dr. R. Cruchet experimented. From the veins, of a horse he drained off blood, which he diluted with serum and at once injected into the vein of an anemic patient. He did the same with the blood of an ox and the blood of a sheep. Horse's blood he found was tolerated best by his anemic patients...
...during which Aunt Evelyn makes every one miserable with maliciously romantic theories. At last convention conquers and Denham is condemned to housekeeping in metroland (suburbs). All of which is told by caustic Miss Macaulay more bluntly than ever, as befits the primitive heroine. Literary Lon don is the prize ox gored, but all nosey, worrying, oversocialized gibble-gabblers everywhere are told...