Word: tarred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adie '26, who earned his letter at number four on the crew which raced Yale last year, reported for rowing shortly after the close of the football season. He has devoted most of his time thus tar to work on the machines. George Mumford '25, who stroked the University crew two years ago, and who has not been rowing this fall because of an operation is also working out on the machines...
...President. Down the long table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items...
...Timmons sat down and wrote a letter to The World, explaining that Mutt and Jeff had indubitably visited Greenville, S. C., not Greenville, N. C. Upon looking the matter up, The World found Mr. Timmons to be perfectly right. Greenville, N. C., is a mere town, on Tar River, noted only for tobacco, cotton not at all. Greenville, S. C., is a city with a cathedral, several collegiate institutions, cotton mills no end. Said Mr. Timmons: "I am wondering if you could not call the attention of your readers to the fact that this error has occurred...
Yale chastened the North Carolina "Tar Heels" 27 to 0, rather clumsily except when forward-passing...
Among the states, New York and Ohio stand after Massachusetts, in a tie of 46, while a far western state, California, is next with 38. Of the 16 states having the largest representation, only four are New England state, eight are in the middle west, two in the tar west, and two in the south...