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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Somerville Pinkney Tuck, 74, of Annapolis, Md. Nominated by President Cleveland and appointed by the Khedive of Egypt, he served for many years as Judge of the International Court of First Instance at Mansourah and later became Judge of the International Court of Appeals at Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...University sextet will face the strongest hockey team that Dartmouth has ever had when it meets the Green at 8.15 o'clock this evening at the Arena. With ten lettermen available at the beginning of the season Coach Tuck has developed a combination which has won 12 out of 13 games, having been defeated only by the Army sextet 1-0. The squad had some valuable early season experience on its Christmas vacation trips to Lake Placid and Buffalo, winning five games. After an easy 6-2 victory over Hamilton, the Dartmouth skaters were forced to the limit to gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN WILL OFFER STIFF OPPOSITION | 2/21/1923 | See Source »

...wanderlust" gets into everyone's blood to a greater or lesser degree and no Maeterlinck Bluebird idea of happiness or Carlyle gospel of work are of much avail to keep it in check. Once a man gets the desire to tuck his "trouser-ends into his boots" and go off to the far corners of the earth, he will go and continue to go until he develops a definite purpose to hold him back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE DOUGHNUT | 2/8/1923 | See Source »

...games Dixon steadied down and, although. Wakefield showed a fine style of play, Dixon was able to hold him in check. The pace was too fast to be long maintained, however, and Dixon had to concede Wakefield the fourth game, making the score-even. The fifth was-nip and tuck up to 9-8 with Wakefield in the lead, but here he unloosed several clever shots which won him the game and match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAKEFIELD DEFEATS DIXON IN SQUASH TOURNAMENT | 11/21/1922 | See Source »

...whole thing is a vicious circle. Report or no report, "one egg' or starvation, we must still eat to live and pay to eat. And, unless "something is done about it", committee investigations do little more than give us an uncomfortable feeling, as we tuck in the loose ends of our shredded wheat, that someone may be "playing us for suckers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 9/28/1921 | See Source »

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