Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During summer, living in camp Reveille at 5.20 o'clock; march to breakfast and back; drills and riding in morning; go mounted to dinner in white uniforms; afternoon spent in recreation; parade at 5 o'clock; after supper a band concert, cadet hop or moving pictures; taps at 10 o'clock...
David Guarnaccia '29 spent a good deal of his time practicing with the kickers, and, in spite of the good punting of Captain A. E. French '29 in the North Carolina game, it seems likely that he will bear the major burden of the punting assignment. Guarnaccia's kinks were averaging around 45 yards...
Among the other collections of an infancy spent in a very politically-minded family, the Vagabond recalls distinctly one occasion some presidential campaigns ago when his father, growing irate against a stubborn uncle, overwhelmed the claims of the latter for his candidate with the words "But he doesn't respect the Constitution!" Between his wanderings from lecture hall to lecture hall the Vagabond has picked up enough knowledge about the current campaign to assure him that there is still no more destructive charge Same of the factors that influenced the birth of this criterion of Americanism will be discussed...
...from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...Dutchman, Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), who invented the microscope, spent the last 50 years of his life studying and describing biological scum. Others have extended his work, until now scientists have a very wide knowledge of what lives on earth...