Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children, when the nurse comes downstairs from his wife's room and says, 'I am sorry to tell you it is twins.' I am afraid the nurse would have to ring up the police and tell them of the new crime that had been committed.* "Is it not extraordinary, in a country like ours, educated, prosperous, and fairly happy, that doctrines of this kind should be taught by learned men as well as scatterbrains...
...Word arrived to this effect late yesterday evening from coastguards near Old Point Comfort. The telegram reads: "Harvard Crimson stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard...
More and more turbulent grew Philadelphia's liquor ring investigation (TIME, Sept. 17). The city's bootleggers, finding the local distilling plants padlocked were not downhearted. They ordered shipments of alcohol from Porto Rico via New York. These goods were seized, however...
...Paulo, Brazil, last week, a one-ring circus was held. At the end of circus, as a final and most brilliant attraction, a wrestling match was arranged between a gigantic nameless Bahian Negro and a small, engaging Jap, name unknown. After a few minutes wrestling, the black Bahian had the Jap on his back; but the Jap rolled over, snickering, and at the end of the wrestling he was sitting like a prime minister upon the dark and heaving stomach of his adversary...
Today Harvard College presents a fourfold outlook to the world, the Class of 1932 has quadrangled what would otherwise be a shapeless figure. No longer a hypothesis, it has become the Freshman Class. Though repetition of the fact have a familiar ring, it is yet necessary. Its first pronouncement was a charged to the Class of 1932. At that moment the name of Harvard was delivered into its hands...