Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down at New Haven, someone wanted to rear a brazen bulldog in a public place, to symbolize the spirit of the Yale teams. But when the secretaries of the classes who would have given it were consulted, the proposal met with unanimous and overwhelming opposition. Probably, these secretaries saw visions of thousands of editorials, filled with "golden calves" and "sacrifices to Molech" and were wise...
Major-General Edwards, a graduate of the United States Military Academy in the class of 1883, first saw actual service in the Philippines during the insurrection in 1899. For 10 months he was on front-line duty, directing his troops in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne offensives; and for meritorious service the French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm and made him a Commander of the Legion of Honor. He was relieved from active duty the first of this year...
...French Sea Captain: "I tried to sight Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean and saw nothing but water. Some people think that the island sank in the recent earthquake; others point 'out that I am a French skipper...
...Frank Crane: "I wrote to Harry Weinberger, Manhattan attorney, to say that I saw nothing immoral in the recently indicted play, The God of Vengeance...
...interlude of the war disturbed this scheme of things. Instead of the old, conventional picture, people saw only Mark Twain's students of Heidelberg, bloody and scarred with duelling. Reputations are more easily ruined than made, and German university life is recuperating slowly in foreign eyes. Yet the universities are determined to overcome prejudices. Leipzig, Heidelberg, Frankfort are again throwing open their doors with special summer lecture courses for Americans. This renewed opportunity for hearing great German lectuerers in literature, art music, and economics, together with all the advantages of a vacation in Germany, where the dollar still has magic...