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Word: terme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to God it were," the prisoner replied. He said that with eight operatives of the foreign power watching him he had in fact only slithered his revolver under the hoofs of the King's horse, asked the jury to have him imprisoned for a long term as only in jail would he be safe from vengeance by the foreign agents he had betrayed. In ten minutes the jury found McMahon guilty of "unlawfully and willfully presenting near the person of the King a pistol with intent to alarm His Majesty," and the judge sentenced him to one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...least 50% of polo are the "mounts," now bred so big and speedy that poloists have almost discarded the term "ponies." Main reason for Argentina's victory last week was the fact that the Argentine mounts, which are likely to bring record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 21-to-9 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...absence, the note of freedom, so earnestly pounded during the Tercentenary, was once more dinned into the cars of undergraduates. Dean Sperry and Mr. Gummere, although starting from different points, also found themselves trying to impress upon the newest and greenest of Harvard's thousands what this vague term freedom meant to them as students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM--HARVARD BRAND | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...those who spoke an listened during the Tercentenary the term freedom had a thousand implications, but most of them were political. The speeches in the Union Friday night however concerned a slightly different kind of freedom, the liberty granted the individual by University Hall to do as he pleases. Petty regulations like chapel attendance, which, as Dean Sperry pointed out, was abolished just fifty years ago, have been cut to the minimum. In spite of the reputed difficulties of scholastic work now as against the "good old days," even Mr. Perkins was willing to admit that compliance with the bare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM--HARVARD BRAND | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Professor Rand gave the principal speech of the evening; addressing the students as fellow alumni, he proved that they were really alumni, so short was their term as undergraduates in comparison with the age of the College. Chief pun of the evening was his witty declension of "California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Draws 2086 Undergrads Exceeding All Preliminary Estimates | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

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