Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight years ago Dr. Abbott was "Bott" Abbott to Yale oarsmen- their head coach in 1918-19. In 1917 he had organized the Yale Naval Unit. Before that he was famed as a professor of Greek and Latin at ultra-conservative Groton School, to which he went, with his bride, in 1897. Further back are his Nova Scotia birth, his training at King's College (Windsor, N. S.) and Worcester College, Oxford...
...loss and expense of its operations will be paid by an equalization fee. This fee will be collected (in transit and in other points) as an internal tax on every unit of the crop in question? bushel, bale or pound...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
King Albert of the Belgians abdicated last week as fiscal dictator of his country (TIME, July 26), a role which he has played so successfully that the Belgian franc is stabilized (TIME, Nov. 8), and a new momentary unit, the belga circulates. To signalize the definite success of his administration, King Albert's last act as "dictator," last week, was to cancel a sheaf of emergency taxes, notably the 10% tax on foreigners' hotel bills...
...working unit in the contest is the individual college. Each college is to select its own representative, and is to have only one. A series of semi-finals will be held before the national finals, eliminating all but seven men who take part in the finals at Los Angeles, each having the assurance of one of the seven cash prizes...