Word: unless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: We wonder from TIME to TIME if you specialize in picturing ugly men! Why not if "TIME brings all Things," bring out occasionally the picture of a handsome man-unless they are, like "faithful lovers," all dead. M. L. CARTER...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...
...January night two years ago. The agents said they stayed in the club, which has not yet been raided, from 11 p. m. to 2:35 a. m. "People do not usually remain up until 3 and 3:30 in the morning dancing at these clubs," deduced Senator Howell, "unless they are animated by something more than natural animal spirits." Moreover, the agents saw liquor, bought liquor, drank liquor. One of the agents was subsequently approached by the manager of the Wardman Park Hotel (affiliated with the Carlton Club), who protested that high Dry officials were his good friends, including...
...overcome, however, are not incident to the game itself at all. The first has to do with the difficulty of securing a general agreement among the institutions which compete with one another. No one college is likely to be willing to withdraw the supervision of the coach unless its chief competitors follow the same practice. For example, some of Yale's opponents have been willing to adopt this policy but others have not. Only once therefore, so far as I am aware, has Yale actually tried the method...
Doesn't it seem that perhaps this is going a bit too far? Signs of feverish optimism and long odds are still a long way in the future unless the undergraduate body in general has completely ignored the snags which are so liable to rise in the path of any team undertaking a schedule such as Harvard's. If passing comments heard around Cambridge may be taken as indicative of undergraduate attitude, it is safe to say that the optimism which prevails around these parts, far from bordering on the hysterical, is rather one of hope. And it should remain...