Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backing up Bailey, and stern man on the starboard side in Howle Turner, another junior who is having his second season in the varsity lightweight boat. While it is hard to draw fine lines between the forms of any men who row in a good lightweight crew, it seems safe to say that Turner shapes up as one of the smoothest oarsmen in the boat. Behind him in the six position is Sam Peirce rounding out the trio in the stern who are not only classmates, but have rowed together for one year already...
...students. Laboratory men, now too busy for extra-curricular history, might well fit a half-course into their distribution schedules. As a course it could be a new departure in Harvard education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with...
...squad of customs agents waited one evening last week outside of River House, swank apartment building on Manhattan's east side, until a limousine drove up and deposited a stately, well-dressed dowager: Mrs. James C. Ayer, Colonial Dame and D. A. R., widow of a distinguished doctor who inherited millions of the American Woolen Co. fortune. The customs men followed her up to the Ayer penthouse, there spent three hours going through her personal effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where...
...reform wave whipped up by the News Negro leaders saw their chance to improve the condition of Miami's ramshackle, malodorous Negro section on the city's east side. They stirred up such interest in the commission primary that election officials provided two extra, segregated voting machines in the chief Negro polling place, the fifth precinct fire station. Evening before primary day, certain white citizens took other precautions...
...except for a few poems printed in the (now defunct) Independent, a religious weekly, none of his poetry was published. He scraped a barer and barer living from his farm. But meanwhile he was writing his intensest poetry. This intensity was the natural consequence of living face to face, side by side with a living Muse...