Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bell in Harvard Hall rings either 44 or 46 strokes on the hours throughout the day, for Sunday chapel it rings between 120 and 124 times, while at 7 o'clock in the morning, and for morning chapel, it rings with a unique stroke which has been used since Harvard was founded...
...many college towns there exist feuds of long standing and great venerability between the local police and the students. Whether or not there is such a feud in New York is hard to say, but the latest stroke of Police Commissioner Enright's "special flying squads" is either a masterful sort of retaliation or else a most dastardly trick. These special raiding squads are composed exclusively of "young detectives apparently chosen for their ability to look and act the college boy on a lark"; they trickle insidiously into the doomed "chop house", purchase several drinks and then ungratefully arrest...
...great grandson of Pierre du Pont de Nemours, French economist-statesman, friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners' union (Knights...
Died. The Very Rev. Henry Wace, 87, Dean of Canterbury since 1903, from constitutional exhaustion. A prolific writer for 40 years, he always refrained from writing on Sunday, left his desk at the stroke of twelve on Saturday night...
With this single stroke the automobile manufacturer decapitated whatever chance he may have had of being President in 1925. On the same day, petitions were filed placing Calvin Coolidge on the Republican ticket and Henry Ford on the Democratic ticket in the Michigan primaries next Spring. Any possibility that Mr. Ford might be a Presidential candidate he disposed of in answer to a question: "No man has a right to say he never will consider public office nor accept public office. No man can predict his own acts and feelings so strongly as that. But this I will say, that...