Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chair tightens the collar, strangles the condemned, at the same time forcing the plunger into the back of his neck, dislocating the spine. It was this ingenious antique which Minister of Executions Francisco de Pineda prepared to operate last week with his accustomed deftness, but in very special circumstances...
...gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them, or diagraming special hands, they spent the time playing bridge. At the end of a five-day meeting, the student-teachers were examined by Whitehead's secretary, who is a bridge teacher herself. Those who passed were given diplomas, valid for one year, proving beyond cavil that they are qualified to teach bridge...
...device consists of a diagram of a football field on a metal board, and employs magnetized disks to represent players. Arrows on the disks denote the direction the play is to take, and the ball carrier is represented by a special magnetized marker...
...current Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON, W. I. Nichols '26 follows the source of the trouble back to the families of the student and holds them to account for forcing their sons to go to college without considering whether they may not have special talents best developed in another...
Pres. Angell also said he was opposed to the plan suggested by faculty members for having students obtain special permission to leave town for the week-ends, and having them register before leaving and upon their return. Unless conditions were remedied, he added, some such plan might be adopted. --Boston Globe