Word: rile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president is Lenox Rile Lohr, whose 44 years have been devote more to war and engineering than to radio A Major in the AEF, he was cited for meritorious service in action, afterward served as executive secretary of the Society of American Military Engineers. He is best known as general manager of Chicago's Century of Progress fair...
...instructor, but as a polite means of expressing curiosity that the chaste-looking young man should care so much for smutty details. The average undergraduate as not easily duped; chalk-throwing, stalking from side to side, original arm-motions, and other attempts at exalting the Unusual Personality merely rile him or inject utter despair...
...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...