Word: walked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the white ring of senility around the eye, a man who walks feebly, sits listlessly in his chair, having all the marks of senility at the age of 65, 70 or older, will after les greffes testiculaires walk upright and with vigor...
Andover, with 38 entries, is the favorite for winner, although it will be no means execute a walk-away. A rapid glance over the list finds no one likely to beat C. Borah in either the 100-yards or 220 yards dashes, in which he has done 9 4-5 seconds and 21 4-5 seconds; nor any one to beat W. S. Edwards, G. Larsen, or E. Renouf, who high jump 5 feet 10 inches; nor K. N. Stone, who puts the shot 46 feet. Captain W. Healey of Andover, present holder of the Harvard Interscholastic javelin record...
...discussing Prohibition, Mr. Pell committed himself, as he did in Congress against the Volstead Act. "Its faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...pictures, and scrimshaw, which was the artistic work of the sailors, in engraving and carving whale ivory, have found their way into the museum. The prize of the collection, however, is a model of a whaling bark, built on half-scale, which is large enough to allow people to walk about on her decks and go down into her cabin. The model is fully equipped with the things that would ordinarily have been taken on a voyage, from whaling charts to sails. It is particularly interesting now that the square-rigger has practically disappeared from the seas...
...however, the romantic atmosphere which doubtless inspired Anthony Hope's Rudolph Rassendyll is rapidly disintegrating, and while the tourist can still walk ahead, there is a dull sameness of nationality which cannot fail to jar the geographic epicure; the personalities of the small states have been merged with those of their larger neighbors. Just lately, for instance, M. le Prince Helie de Sagan, Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes...