Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Living quietly in a comfortable brick house on Washington's S Street for the past 18 years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when...
...Yale News" has exposed the whole monstrous situation during past weeks in columns which, if placed end to end, would probably reach from Portland to Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies...
After he had emphasized the tremendous importance of the historical approach as an aid to understanding art, Feild said, "We are holding on to the past, while new forms are growing up too fast to be appreciated...
Coleman played defense on the sextet during the past season and was on the squad the year before. While he did not start in the regular lineup, he was in a large part of each game and was a steady, dependable player. Not among the highest scorers of the season, he was nevertheless responsible for several important tallies. He comes from Baltimore, Maryland, and prepared at Kent...
...little wonder then that townspeople are likely to resent the criticism of their governments by gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...