Word: substitutees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-four years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handle-bar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half.
Enough machinery has now been projected to set the whole tenure business in smooth-running order. Frozen associates have been accepted in the official vocabulary. In addition, a system of loaning and borrowing professorships among departments--a substitute for the President's Fund--is being worked out. These two plans...
Adolf: "What is substitute tea?"
Last December Thomas Eakins' widow died, in the plain Philadelphia house to which she had gone as a bride in 1884. Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000...
At a Chicago Civic Opera performance of Mignon, Tito Schipa, supposed to carry Gladys Swarthout off stage, let Désiré Defrère substitute in the job. Proxy Defrère stumbled, dropped her. Explained Slacker Schipa: "She is, you understand, a little heavy, I do not say...