Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...
...much is sympathy with the ideal behind this suggestion as we are--that of giving the greatest athletic outlet to the greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power...
...best. The Saturday one o'clock that concern undergraduates, to whom theoretically the first interest in the football team belongs, are very few. The half-hour surplus allowed at the start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might choose to accomplish thirty minutes of daylight saving before next autumn...
...late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later may be found...
Escaping from prison, he makes his way back to the Berlin kitchen-apartment where Anna has chastely waited three years for Richard's return. She is amazed at this stranger who presumes to call himself Richard, who claims to be her pre-ordained spouse, who knows already the secrets of her bed. Whoever he is, wherever he obtained his bewildering knowledge of herself, he is warm, intimate, mystically compelling. So much so, that when stodgy Richard does return, she blasts his life by going away with Karl...