Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entrants in the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking competitions must register with him at Warren House before March 1, Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, announced yesterday...
...heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census by airplane, an innovation. He counted 4,000 muskrat huts...
...Wallace Wade's undefeated Blue Devils were favorites to win the Southern Conference championship this year. In the first period of its game against North Carolina last week, Duke led, 6-to-0. In the second period something went wrong; North Carolina's Crowell Little went through right tackle for a touchdown and Tom Burnette kicked the extra point. In the final three minutes North Carolina scored a superfluous touchdown to underline the upset-of-the-week: North Carolina 14, Duke...
...subjected to the suppression of the authorities, but the whole study of music is checked by an inaccessible library hidden in one of the basements of Widener. While all other major departments at Harvard have their own libraries, music concentrators and graduates in ever-increasing numbers are forced to wade through the formalities of Widener to get information in their field. Those who may descend into the stacks are struck by the appalling deterioration of the books and scores of one of the best music libraries in the country...
...people most upset by this split was Wallace Wade, who felt as if the split was brought about by the more Southern schools, such as Alabama, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. . . . In fact, at the Conference banquet that night when official announcement of the split was made, my seat being near Wade, I heard him remark to the man on his left something to this effect-"They have put us with the damn amateurs. If I ever get the chance I will show them a few things." The first chance came in 1933, when he was offered...