Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that no stray outsiders may gain participation in the privileges of the day, each Senior will wear a special uniform consisting of a pair of white overalls and a black cap. A pair of blue swimming tights is also a necessary part of each man's equipment. The Cooperative Society will be open today at 7.45 A. M. to allow men to purchase uniforms...
...year ago, after the football game, a dietist announced that the reason for Yale's defeat was the lack of certain nutritive elements in Connecticut food and water. This excuse was tacitly accepted by all; but the true result of the situation has just been pointed out: the supposedly stray calories have gone to build brain. Mr. Stewart, discoverer of this fact, frankly admits that Yale has now gained intellectual ascendency over Harvard, due to the new social prominence accorded the savant in New Haven. Not that culture is sought for its own sake; no, praise God. "Yale is Yale...
...regular uniform has been decided upon for the picnicers, in order that no stray outsiders may gain participation in the privileges of the day. The outfit is the only official one, and is thoroughly distinctive, consisting of a pair of white overalls and a black cap. A pair of blue swimming tights is also a necessary part of each man's equipment...
...most part the book is composed of fragments dealing with a wide variety of subjects, stray bits of Tolstoy an philosophy and opinion, little anecdotes, and casual impressions a gathered together with no attempt to make a unified whole. But through it all there runs the ever recurring effort of Gorky to classify Tolstoy and to determine if possible what manner of man he was. With the simplicity and unselfconsciousness of the Russian, Gorky bares his own soul in the hope that the world may see the effect that the great man made upon him. At times he believes that...
...tide seems to be turning at last. Out of the chaos in Russia there is one group of men who have the power to gather together the stray ends of opposition, to unify the disorganized but widespread resistance to the Soviets. This is the Constituent Assembly, duty elected by universal suffrage to represent all-Russia and dissolved three years ago by the Bolsheviki when they set up by force their military regime. Former Premier Kerensky has issued a manifesto calling a hundred members to a conference in Paris "to devise ways and means for the defense of the honor...