Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when members of the present Freshman class will no longer be with us, even as students in the professional schools, Harvard University will celebrate its third centennial. At the quarter-millennial celebration in 1886 a notable address was delivered, to which the thoughts of Harvard men are likely to revert in 1936. The speaker was, or had been, a professor in modern languages, but was far from being a mere linguist, or literary specialist, or otherwise a parochial person. He had been Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Spain and to Great Britain: none other than James Russell Lowell...
...concomitant debates were marked by a bitter clash between Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill and Mr. Snowden. Mr. Churchill declared that there was too much fuss being made about the McKenna duties (TIME, May 11), and that all he sought to do was to revert to the status quo ante and to brand Mr. Snowden's repeal of those duties (TIME, May 12, 1924) as a purely partisan action. Mr. Snowden retorted: "I can well understand that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents...
...That Peruvians expelled from the provinces by Chile and who were resident there for five years or more be permitted to vote in the plebiscite which is to decide whether the provinces are to remain Chilean or to revert to Peru...
Ferdinand Foch did not revert to the wool business, but he shared his grandfather's enthusiasm for the great Napoleon whom he was never tired of studying. From the days of his early education at the lycee de Tarbes until his actual entrance into the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, Ferdinand Foch studied hard to become a soldier...
Last year Coach Stevens kept only two eights under his direct supervision. In the event that he decides to retain only two eights as his first squad this year, crew Z will revert to Coach Brown at a later date, after a more permanent realignment of the candidates in the present first squad. Last year three oarsmen earned their letters by rowing in the first boat against Yale. They were taken up to the first squad by Coach Stevens following the class crew season, in which a victorious Crimson shell opened up five lengths of water in the race with...