Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With these in mind, it is appalling to consider the modern possibilities disclosed by the Harverford senior's intrigue. Perhaps at the next commencement, the president of his alma mater, dreading to be the cynosure of all eyes, may peek in attired as a goody, while he confers by proxy upon the perturbed candidates their various degrees. The loop-hole of escape may even be adopted in higher circles. The President of the United States in subsequent inaugurations may take his oath of office "in absentia," 'while he attends the function as a girl scout. Surely the harassed Haverford gentleman...
...Kennard, H. W. Keyes Jr., G. M. Laimbeer, J. W. Lund, H. H. MacCubbin, W. C. Macdonald, W. K. Manly, James Martin, K. D. Mann, J. D. W. Morrill, Noe Morss. G. B. Moynahan, H. C. Newman, G. A. Norton, R. M. Parker, P. R. Pease, H. B. Peek, J. W. Perkins, F. deW, Pingree, H. I. Pratt, Donald Reynolds. K. M. Rogers L. H. Roots, Carlos Sanchez, R. H. Schacht Jr., L. H. Sherrill, G. E. Smith, Donald Spencer, A. H. Stafford, W. S. Stone, R. K. Stover D. LeB Sweeney, B. A. G. Thorndike, R. D. Tucker...
Besides several thousand undergraduates who will see the game on these season passes, 2500 pasteboards have been given to the now famous "Knot Role Gang", which has not been able to get a peek at Harvard football since the Middlebury game three weeks ago. Tickets and admissions are also on sale at Cambridge and Boston agencies, and will be sold at the gates of Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon as well. Mr. C. F. Getchell of the H. A. A. was unable to predict the exact number of these last minute sales, but believes that they will bring the total...
...Peek Jr., consulting engineer of the General Electric Co., told of experiments with lightning, in which he found that the average charge of a bolt of lightning is 100,000,000 volts (about a million times the charge of electricity used for domestic purposes). Its destructive effect comes from the explosive suddenness with which it is discharged. If it could be stored in a storage battery it would drive an electric automobile for about five miles or heat an electric iron for a day. By experimenting with artificial lightning of about 2,000,000 volts, it was found that lightning...
...company of ex-Deputy Andre Tardieu, quondam French High Commissioner to the U. S., went U. S. Financier Bernard M. Baruch to sunny Vendee to take a "peek" at the "Tiger," ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau, in his lair. Said "Barney...