Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only about six more real practice sessions remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any...
A barmaid named Minnie is heroine of the David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers...
Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them up!
One day last week Critic Swaffer of the London Sunday Express (circulation 538,889) sat at lunch in the Savoy grill, crowded with Londoners eating solid, expensive food. Up to his table stalked Actress Lillian Foster, U. S. star of Conscience, just opened in London.
Like a great pumping plant is the U. S. Postal service, pumping current periodicals from the country's publishing reservoirs to individual subscribers. Inevitably a certain amount of the flow is impeded in transit by obsolete or illegible addresses, torn wrappers, clerical stupidity. Undelivered copies of national magazines back...