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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more than most of his colleagues, is possessed of an eye for the dramatic, and his style is rendered most vigorous by the frequent use of the present tense and very short sentences much after Caesar's own "I came, I saw, I conquered...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: Caesar's Rome -- Ibanez' Madrid | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...breaking up of the "Flying Wedge." He was the guest of Major Henry L. Higginson, Hon, '82, donor of Soldiers Field, at secret practice one day. A few weeks later he related to some friends in San Francisco the story of the practice and the "Flying Wedge" as he saw it. At a nearby table in the restaurant sat a Yale man. He could make nothing of the tale, but wrote to New Haven that Harvard apparently had a dangerous formation. The coaches put their heads together, guessed at the Wedge and devised a defense which, after the first half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grioiron Chosts | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give it to posterity?" But the was obdurate, and with typical Forecast foresight, I saw trouble looming...

Author: By Jee Forecast, | Title: JOE FORECASTS THWARTED IN PLAN | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...should be used on the mountain for climbing. Norton and Somervell were opposed, and finally made the world's record ascent without oxygen tanks, reaching 28,200 feet. Mallory and Irvine next tried with the aid of oxygen to reach the summit. Through a rift in the clouds Odell saw them 600 feet from the summit, but beyond that we know nothing of these two unfortunate mountaineers...

Author: By John DELAITTRE ., | Title: Spread Eagle -- Mt. Everest | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...James Theatre--"The Gorilla"--8.15 o'clock.--Saw this Freshman year. Is well preserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

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