Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...counter-parts of Harvard, like Harvard preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...
Having heard that some angry farmers were planning a march on Washington this winter, trim, efficient, cheerful Superintendent Pelham D. Glassford of the Washington police, who handled the B. E. F. peacefully until the Army butted in, went three weeks ago to the District of Columbia Commissioners, asked for ''undisputed authority to evacuate any army of indigents after their Constitutional rights of petition have been exercised.'' Last week he was looking...
With the exception of Jack Grady, who will be kept out of the game with Dartmouth tomorrow with a severe cold and an old hurdling injury, Coach Casey will put into the field a team in excellent physical trim for the first of four games in the long uphill climb toward the Yale climax...
...University annually publishes a catalogue known as the "Announcement of the Courses of Instruction." By its trim green covers, by the promise of order given in the lines, "An Index of Departments . . . on the Back Page of the Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger...