Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only light was from the candles and they were set close down to the tables so that the floor was in shadow. That was what made the huge birthday cake seem as though it were floating through the air when the hostess carried it through the crooked aisles up to the high table. A gleaming white mountain covered with--thirty candles, the Vagabond would say. A cake of many candles...
...England colleges. The team will be picked up there, form all those who care to go up, but Captain Tom Winship of the ski team did not care to make any predictions. "Tommy Thomas, Harry Hollmeyer, and a transfer from Middlebury, Lloyd Butterfield, have a pretty good chance. There seem to be a lot of good Freshmen who've had European experience, but every place on the team is open...
...Club's new cabin in Jackson, New Hampshire will be full during the entire holiday, Jack Crawford '42, Chairman of the Cabin Committee, said last night. "Reservations are not all in, but by all indications it would seem that the but will be the center of the club's activities except for the team itself, which will be at Lake Placid...
Unexpected occurrences seem to be in order at this particular type of meet. At a recent Alumni vs. Ulen affair the last event on the program was a 200-yard relay, consisting of four men on a team, each swimming 50 yards. The worthy Ulen had been fostering secret hopes of perhaps snatching an American record for the distance, since the event was to be swum only once during the season. Gentlemen such as Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Barker, and McKay were then Hal's disciples--a potent enough aggregation for any sprint record...
...swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record is valid under such bizarre conditions of competition...