Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound crew also spoke as the plans for the coming rowing campaign were outlined. Formal rowing will begin at the Newell Boat House on Monday, with the tank reserved for the Varsity on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and for Yardlings on Tuesday and Thursday until all crews can be sent out on the river...
Since the body was not in the river, perhaps Burgess was for some reason wilfully disappearing, or else suffering from amnesia. Circulars were sent out over the country. And three months later, ignored and forgotten, the river Charles divulged the decomposed body of the missing student. How did the body evade the grappling hooks and the diver, and turn up three months later half a mile down the river? Police state they "have no idea...
...hard-driving figures in U. S. journalism, the demoniac James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald was the most reckless, the most imaginative. Before he was 30 he had sent H. M. Stanley to Africa with blunt orders to find Livingstone. For circulation's sake he sent out scientific expeditions, wangled government support for his journalistic adventures and launched balloon races that started as many as 50 gas bags blowing wildly over the U. S. Nobody knows what wires Bennett pulled in Rutherford Hayes's Administration to persuade the U. S. Navy to back the terrible attempt...
...flag. Because they could not find a pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena fell, before it could get its socialist experiments running or, as one of its leaders proposed, declare its allegiance to the U. S. But suppressing it turned out to be too much for the staggering Republic, which fell soon after...
...time has come for red-haired Harold McBride Thurston '40 of Lowell House and Muskegon, Illinois, to speak of many things . . . including cabbages and kittens. Thurston has a female friend in Muskegon called Jane. He sent her a cabbage. She sent him a collect telegram. He refused the latter, at her expense...