Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks the others will have completed their schedules with similar encounters. It is quite possible that the undergraduate committee which has been appointed to investigate the question of a possible revision of minor sports awards, and which is incidentally made up of four seniors connected with major sports, may turn to the outcome of these contests as one of the few concrete indications of whether the present conditions merit change...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
Glendon coached crews never have raced each other in a dual meet until this year-as you have stated-but in the 1924 Olympic tryouts, Glendon Sr.'s Navy Officers' crew met and defeated "Rich's" midshipmen. Yale, in turn, beat the officers' "Grandfather Eight" by a few yards...
...those politics, is governed by a board of five Directors elected by the People. The Director of Public Affairs is elected Mayor by his fellow Directors. For many a tumultuous week, Jersey City voters have been exhorted to change Directors. A Reform-Fusion organization has been fighting bitterly to turn out Frank L. Hague, Tsar of the North Jersey democracy, vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, three times (for the past twelve years) Mayor of Jersey City. Dictator of Private Desires, said the Fusionists, would be a better title for Mr. Hague than Director of Public Affairs...
...himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical advice of the time...