Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood in a window recess. We had a splendid view of the Thames, and one of us-I think it was Anthony Hope-expressed regret that so glorious a landscape and such graceful arches as characterized the stone bridges should be marred by a rectangular iron railway structure. H. G. Wells interrupted...
...first year men have been handicapped by the lateness and poor condition of the ice on the Charlesbank rink, but since the Christmas recess have been able to arrange several additional practices at the Arena. The Browne and Nichols team with three lettermen back this year has contended with similar unfavorable conditions. The school boys have been developing rapidly during the last two weeks and they may reach the form displayed last season when they played a 1 to 1 tie with the University second team...
...Crimson fencers have been practicing regularly every day since the Christmas recess under the tutelage of Coach Danguy. Last year the squad was only under the instruction of a coach three days a week in the early season, and the additional work this winter is expected to greatly increase the chances for a successful year. Between ten and 15 men have been working with the foils each day. The Freshman squad includes another eight fencers...
...Herr Koch vanished into the political limbo, rumors were again current that Dr. Luther will have to resume in name the office which he still exercises in fact, and continue to carry on with a minority government. Meanwhile President von Hindenburg announced that he would declare a Christmas recess on all attempts to form a cabinet. Observers opined that the matter may drift unsettled well into the New Year, since no emergency threatens...
...This remark never failed to please him because he knew that it was true. Now he has acted upon it.* He has told what he remembers of Philadelphia in Civil War days, when he was going to a Quaker School. ("Teacher, what is a concubine?" "Thee stay in at recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang, Edmund...