Word: save
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred E. Smith ever carry more than 13 of the 57 counties outside of New York City. This year it has been variously estimated that he would have to meet Nominee Hoover at the New York City line with a plurality of 400,000 to 600,000 votes, to save his State's 45 electoral votes...
Edward of Wales and his brother, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, were greeted in Kenya, East Africa, last week by naked painted savages who welcomed the royal "goodwill" visitors with brandishing of spears, and ululation. Other natives donned "store clothes" and sang "God Save the King" impressively but nearly unrecognizably...
...Boniface,--whose name has become proverbial of his class--houser of highwaymen yet honestly eloquent over his Anno Domini, Thomas Shearer is excellent. All of the actors and actresses save two, in fact, feel their parts and present them compellingly. There is a well-presented Scrub, with his cowardice and itching palm, whose happy phrase, "... and I believe they talked of me for they laughed consumedly" is one of the famous bits of the play. Archer and Aimwell, the Restoration gentlemen, played by Arthur Sircom and Milton Owen, fail to convince. Their stilted stage poise is an overdoing...
...talking about a lack of spirit at Harvard. They take a sadistic delight in pointing to every defeat on the athletic field as a symptom of an ever decreasing loyalty on the part of Harvard men, and even hint that the doctrine of overemphasis was invented merely to save the trouble of organized cheering. How upsetting it must be to the followers of conventional doctrines to have President Little of Michigan throw the full force of his opinion onto the other side of the anancient Harvard paradox. A Harvard alumnus himself, with an unusually intimate acquaintance with another side...
...Every student in even the most elementary chemistry course knows the annoyance and loss of time engendered by the inexorable cry "Close up; time to close up! When he has assembled a complicated apparatus and proceeded half way through a difficult experiment. Even though five minutes might suffice to save an hour's work, if no leeway is given the student one hour is wasted...