Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted that F. V. Field '27, should be delegated to write a letter to the students of the University of Buenos Aires, in answer to the communication recently received from them to the students of the University. This answering epistle is to be sent by Professor Coriolano Alberini, head of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, who attended the Philosophical Congress held here this fall...
...Oklahoma v. Texas. When the U. S. was young, boundary disputes used to be a pastime among the states, but in the present era of federated democracy they are rare. Last week the first decision of the Supreme Court in its autumn session was handed down in the case of the State of Oklahoma, complainant, against the State of Texas, defendant; the United States of America, intervener (No. 6, in Equity). The opinion delivered by Justice Edward T. Sanford established a, neutral line between the conflicting claims...
Within the city a revolt was nearly launched last week by agitators in the pay of the Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...
Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...
...backing up the front. Lady Wikens rather flounders through the chapters, endeavoring to find out what it's all about. She does and she doesn't. The three children are Dick, Tom, Madge. Reading from left to right they are a D. S. O., a "conchy,' and a V. A. D., a fairly representative crib of the sort of thing one could or could not do back...