Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting the pace, half a length behind. Slowly, however, the eventual winners pulled ahead. From the Henley mark to the finish the distance widened, until at the end Crew A was a length and a quarter ahead of Crew C, with Crew B trailing Norton's boat by a similar margin...
Holden was given by an Englishwoman, and the plans were probably drawn in England, since the design antedates anything similar in America, and it is believed that no American architect could have conceived it at that early time. Unfortunately the building has been somewhat altered throughout its long and varied history, the windows have been lengthened, the entablature is missing on the sides, and the door at the west has been reduced from its original size. It remains, however, an unusually rare and beautiful example of the English Georgian...
Nationalist Disunion. Far more important than events at Shanghai, last week, was a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist party at Hankow. The Committee is extremely potent, similar to the Communist Executive Committee which dominates Soviet Russia. When the Chinese committee assembled at Hankow, last week, it was the sense of the meeting that its members wished to relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that...
...rarest feature of the exhibition is two leaves from an ancient Latin grammar, one of the first text books printed in England. The only other remnants of this early edition known to be extant, are two similar leaves now in the keeping of the British Museum...
...University last year was that each competitor wrote for not more than two hours on one or two topics which were chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the period beginning May 1, 1926, which were indicated on the examination. A similar plan presumably will be followed this year. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner...