Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other games of general interest include Boston College's invasion of Syracuse, in which two great backs, Darling and Bowman, will vie for honors. The Eagles showed poor football even in trouncing Fordham Monday. Unless the tendency to infringe the rules is corrected, Syracuse should be materially helped by penalties...
...succeed the late Senator Nicholson. This was an ad interim appoint- ment until an election should be held. The term of Senator Nicholson does not expire until 1927. But Senator Adams decided not to contest for the remaining two years of the Nicholson term. Instead he will vie with Mr. Phipps for a full six, and let the small fry scramble for the crust...
...waving of wild legs" in naughty European centres, of an inadequately intense devotion to purely artistic education. The Foundation has therefore decided to mingle stern wisdom with its generosity in the future. American control, on the spot, is to be substituted for American beneficiaries' sippings of la vie de Boh?...
...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
...most surprising revelations is that the French Government itself not only countenanced but encouraged these subsidies. Magazine writers, financial editors, managing editors, feature writers,--all kinds of people on papers from the semi-official "Temps" to the familiar "Vie Parisienne" received their shares. In the one year, 1905, Russia spent 3,796,861 francs on the Paris press...