Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centipede or a salamander which will some day dispute with man the mastery of the world. Thus says H. G. Wells in his chapter on evolution in the "Outline of History". Indeed, football's salamander has already come to light--the University of Pennsylvania has taken to horse-shoe pitching as a sublimation of the athletic complex...
...fair way to become a dangerous rival of the gridiron. Only last year the question over the candidacy of coeds for football managerships and some athletic teams harassed the masculine element at Cornell. Fortunately, the new sport solves the problem, for a girl can throw the horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad" now tinkles with the merry clank of materialized good-luck...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House Mr. J. S. Braithwaite of London, England, will speak on "Christian Science." Mr. Braithwaite, who will be introduced by J. C. Shoe '23, President of the Christian Society of Phillips Brooks House, is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston. All members of the University and their friends are cordiaily invited...
...employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award was made on the fact that a man accidentally cut himself with a tool with which he was trying to ease a tight shoe on his own foot...
...Canadian Bank of some seven or eight years, a man is eligible for assignment as manager to a branch bank at a salary of about $8000 a year. Unattractive? Financially, yes, if you place against that the $10,000 a year you may expect to make selling, say shoe-strings. But are you sure that you are one of the men who is to make $10,000? A comparatively few men earn that amount. Suppose you sell shoe-strings, what is your world -- shoe-strings -- what do you know -- shoe-strings? On the other hand, in Foreign Trade work, your...