Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...say, a peasant of Kent and four times a mother. The father of these four children, a truck gardener, died some years ago and left her their sole support. She, previously a vigorous and goodlooking young woman, has become the victim of a disease known as acromegaly. This cruel and deforming malady not only completely transforms the outward appearance of those whom it afflicts but is attended with great suffering and often with loss of vision...
...same has also been prophesied for Yale. Any score except a clean sweep is perfectly credible in this event since the four leading contestants. Dean and Davidson of Yale, and Moore and Pratt of Harvard, have all made losses of over 18O feet and it is impossible to say which of them will come closest to his best effort in this afternoon's contest...
...immature, is wanted. And in such occasions college stories written by undergraduates exactly fit the requirements. They offer what is at the moment the sentiment of the writer and although they may be nothing but expressions of that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek advice from as infant on the subject of the care and feeding of children. One is amused...
...institution. The reduction in the numbers of the first year class will make it possible for us to select our men even more carefully than heretofore. Although we are more than a month from the closing date for applications, we have already had so many we can safely say that we shall reject more applicants than we admit. All applicants must be college graduates so that we shall have next year a very highly selected student group...
...some is the greatest living playwright--George Bernard Shaw, Shaw himself is said to have his doubts whether he looks more like Satan or Christ; so has the Vagabond. Also the Vagabond is in no position to discuss the merit of his plays but at least he can say that he is thinking very seriously of going to hear about an interesting character...