Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four following men, three will be the speakers and one the alternate: P. J. W. Bove '29, V. K. Kwong '29, J. M. Swigert '30, president of the Harvard Debating Council, and Norman Winer '29. The Harvard team will take the positive of the propostion: "Resolved. That A1 Smith should be elected President...
...Harvard Republican Club will take part in the country wide pre-election demonstration of partisans of both parties when it occupies a prominent sector in the big Republican torchlight parade in Boston, Friday night. The club will manage its own section of the parade drawing its recruits from members of the University who are supporting Herbert Hoover in the election...
...that the November hours have arrived in their full strength and the visitor to lecture halls is in peril of finding even the pleasantest of courses infected with its unsavory interludes, the Vagabond will take the occasion to try to remedy one defect that is an inevitable accompaniment of a column acting as a guide to lectures. Dealing as it does with the smallest unit of the course--the lecture--it must treat it as self-supporting and must give it a definite title as an indicator to the prospective listener of what it is to be about. Two groups...
Thus the Melchett month ended. Having possibly merged, having certainly titillated, Tycoon Melchett prepared to stride unmirthfully up the gangplank, take off his hat and put it on again, glance at the dark Palisades, and sail"for England...
...cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only spoonerism, that it was a slip of his tongue...