Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will argue that this is not a tall order, or that it does not demand specially qualified men. What, then, should the criteria for their selection be. Generally speaking, they should be young men, preferably graduates of Harvard who have been through the mill or, at least well acquainted with this college's highways and byways. Secondly, they should be thoroughly available. Thirdly, they should have a working knowledge of Freshman courses; for this purpose the college could publish a pamphlet requiring each professor who enrolls Freshmen in his course to give a concise hundred-word description of it. Lastly...
...singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h...
...meticulously rational life. Before taking up contract four years ago he made a close study of all the systems, decided that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler a perfect contrast to Richard Whitney, who looks more like a rich broker than rich brokers usually look...
...years ago, the Cambridge crew rowed proudly onto the Thames with the third lightest coxswain in Boat Race history-97-lb. J. M. Ranking. Hart Massey, 19, a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, now in his first year at Balliol, is less than 4 ft. tall, weighs 56 Ib. Using Coxswain Massey would give Oxford at least 50 Ib. weight advantage. It would also mean building a shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew...
Lubricious sightseeing, of the type euphemistically called anthro- pological, by a onetime spy and explorer. Author Forbes tells many a tall tale, embellished by pictures but not backed up by photographs. FIFTY MILLION BROTHERS-Charles W. Ferguson - Farrar & Rinehart...