Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...
Racehorse Russell Saunders, Punter Duffield and other Southern Californians plugged through a light Idaho team for the extraordinary score of 72 to o. Southern California's season point total reached...
...After ousting Bukharin the Committee crushingly rebuked two suspected partakers in his heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
Since 1906, to take The Evening World's starting point, the point score is even more Crimson than the list of victories. Harvard, that is to say, rolled up 183 points, Yale only 110. And two years Harvard administered such a drubbing to her ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers...
Further discussion of the advisability of the plan itself is admittedly futile and out of place. It remains only to settle the details of the Plan's operation in such a way as to make the Plan as acceptable as possible to the largest number of people. The point cannot be too strongly emphasized that virtually all the present plans for the operation of the two houses are still in a fluid state. Those in charge are anxious that this flexibility be maintained as long as possible after the Houses are in operation and fully intend to make modifications...