Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to me more likely this was the valuation set by the learned Senator...
...What set Detective Lippmann to brooding on the mystery was a Washington rumor that after Christmas President Roosevelt will declare his intention about a third term. Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem...
...return to normalcy had set in, with several exceptions; bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The crimson emerged victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...
...eleven is in tip-top physical condition and will be ready for Harvard Saturday. Even Captain Bill Stack, who was bumped in the Princeton game, is set to travel 60 minutes against the Crimson. Coach Pond's men have been in-and-outers all year long, but they are convinced that Saturday will find them at their best...
...oldest items are a set of newspaper articles from 1781 telling how the Sophomores and Freshmen played their traditional football game in the fall. Included is a list of college customs forbidding the game or any other games near college buildings and prohibiting students from "throwing anything across the Yard...