Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This does not mean that the good schoolboy athlete is necessarily a poor college student, but it does show that the good schoolboy athlete is under a handicap in college, probably because he has lost the proper perspective between studies and athletics. Experience has shown that the average star athlete in school, is an indifferent or, at best, average school student. When he enters college he become a below-the-average or probation student and consequently is not of much use to his team...
...that this is in itself reprehensible. It has been remarked that sex "is something most of us possess, but in which most of us do not see the guiding star of our lives." In short, while it is not difficult to understand why so much perfectly good paper is taken up with its exposition, it is hard to justify the fact on any artistic or intellectual grounds. And what applies to the bulk of the "novels" of this character applies in particular to "Plundered Host." In the words of the late Ambrose Bierce, "The covers of this book...
Howard of the Navy was the only man to come through with a clean record. Both D. I. Modell '30 and M. U. Copland '29 forced him to a 5 to match. The latter was the star for Harvard, scoring both of Harvard's points in the foils. C. B. H. Hollister '29 and S. C. Smith '31 were the only other Harvard winners, defeating respectively MacFarlane and Wilbur of the Navy in the epee...
...Passed a House Bill to send at Federal expense gold star mothers and widows on a pilgrimage to their soldiers' graves in France...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...