Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven members of the University football squad are officially listed as guards; of these at least two have spent part of their time in tackle berths this fall and one is a converted center. With the elevation of F. S. Davis '30 and T. H. Alcock '28, scrub tackles, however, to first string rating and the presence of four high class centers on the squad it is likely that all of the guards listed as guards will remain so throughout the season. As in the case of the University ends this season, there is much experienced material among the guards...
Balloting being by proportional representations,* much time was spent in counting the votes and transferring them to second, third and fourth choices...
...last week came out of Russia. One, Geroid Tanquary Robinson, instructor at Columbia University, arrived in Paris after two years spent in Sovietland. The other, James Hudson Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, reached Warsaw, capital of Poland, after a month spent in investigating conditions under the Bolshevik regime. Both said much...
...Then the spent tidal wave receded. Miles of sea wall, some of it only recently constructed, crumbled as the gurgling sea sucked it to its doom...
Wombat. Near Sydney, Australia, a captive wombat,* the property of one Timothy Sermon, was chained to a post for the entertainment of visitors to Timothy Sermon's ranch. A lanky, nervous creature, this sly marsupial† spent his days in a hopscotch circular gallop, his nights in forlorn and ridiculous nightmares, or wild nostalgic visions. Last week, Timothy Sermon found his wombat, covered with dirt and excrement, his thin sensitive nose pushed far into the yellow loam, a suicide...