Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once in the five relay races since the war at the B. A. A, games has a University quartet outrun the Blue, and in the last three short relays with Technology, no Crimson man has been the first to break the tape...
...famous Lloyd Hahn, victor in the K. of C. mile earlier in the evening, all the way, and lost little. At the beginning of the last lap, he struck to pass him and for a moment it seemed that he might succeed. Hahn spurted, however, and broke the tape 12 yards ahead...
...Madame," said an apostle of red tape, "as your husband was not drowned in a shipwreck, you have a right to only one-quarter of his salary for a pension. It is unfortunate for you that he was not drowned, as then you would have got three-quarters...
...right and the other fellow wrong. This is more apparent than real, however; and, in any case the ex-First Lord never fails to make out for himself what seems an incontrovertible case. What Mr. Churchill really did fail in was underestimating the strength of the " red tape " which bound him so securely in his dealings with the Admiralty Board and the War Office. It is apparent that he had no idea of the limits of the possible within a bureaucratic government; in other words he was the optimistic fly in the red tape web of the Government spider...
...caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found. Many investigators of plant and animal cancer have caused cancer experimentally in varied ways-by injecting a virus from the growths, by painting rats with irritating substances, and by nematodes (microscopic worms), tape worms, other parasites. In short, Dr. Smith's theory is that at least some cancer is caused by the irritation of parasites acting upon organs unable to withstand it on account of inherited or acquired weakness. Physiologically injurious living as to eating, drinking, chewing, smoking, may prepare a suitable...