Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued its efforts yesterday to gather together enough distance stars to in sure Edvin Wide sufficient competition for a record-breaking effort in his attempt at the world's twomile mark on the Stadium track next Saturday. Little success was reported last night, however, though there remain still several prospective entrants to be heard from...
More airplanes came to Princeton and droned above the elms. Dean Gauss said nothing. Students paid $3 apiece for five-minute rides in commercial craft, just to fly over Nassau Hall and snap their fingers. Dean Gauss said nothing. Everyone felt sure that Dean Gauss would enunciate a new prohibition, but Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that...
...signature to the petition headed by Dean Pound does not imply any criticism of Massachusetts' justice. I myself am a Pennsylvanian. I feel sure that had the Sacco Vanzetti case been tried in 1921 before a court and jury in any place in Pennsylvania, similar to Dedham, the unfortunate but necessary interjection of proof that the defendants were communists would have created such a prejudice against them that the would have been convicted upon even the flimsiest of evidence...
...flood situation in the South, it may seem that there is much exaggeration, but from my own observation of conditions in Southern Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee last week, I do not feel that the stories printed in the Metropolitan papers are at all over drawn. To be sure, those of us who visited Memphis and the surrounding country had very little opportunity to see much of the extended flood areas. We did, however, see sufficient to convince us that the local people were probably right when they said this was one of the worst floods, if not the worst...
...material. Although it seems to be comparatively easy for the "movies" to recruit its actresses, the men do not seem to flock to Hollywood in such great numbers. This present nation-wide campaign is an excellent step, and, in addition to any men they may find, they are sure of a great deal of very good advertising. They have proved the value of an education for movie actresses in their school at Hollywood, in which they have trained four of their leading performers, and they appear to have decided to apply this lesson in trying the colleges...