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...apportionment of the rooms in the Houses this year has become, as usual, a sore point both with the authorities and with the students. Under the modified central control office plan adopted by University Hall this spring the Freshmen have been got into their future domiciles without the former ill, feeling and politics; the difficulties now remaining are largely financial ones. As always, there have been over-applications for the lower priced rooms, and under-applications for those in the higher brackets; Freshmen, quite naturally, have been unwilling to pay any more than they are forced...
...cold in the head and a slight sore throat kept President Roosevelt indoors the beginning of last week. It was not bad enough for him to go to bed or call in a doctor but he did spend two days away from his. executive office and get a prescription refilled at the Naval Hospital. He continued to transact public business in the Oval Room on the second floor of the White House which with books, easy chairs and marine prints he has fixed up as a study. Thither one noon last week he summoned the Press, 100 correspondents strong...
...lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...their systems when they were boys. Having given and received a black eye, a bloody nose, they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body would make him so sore that in the morning on the train he would be unable to get out of his berth...
...pages of the New York Times is printed the news that Russia is beginning to emerge from its policy of watchful waiting that has characterized its relations with Japan in the past few months into a new attitude which has been described by the New York Times as "getting sore," for Russia has grown sharp with Japan; as the Soviet on the Western Front is no longer willing to be bluffed by England, so the Soviet on the Eastern Front feels strong enough to tighten her demands in Tokyo...