Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happy and cosmopolitan Jubilee are gone forever. It is impossible at present to effect an entrance without a birth certificate, a marriage license, or a writ of habeas corpus. Freshmen themselves can't get in. The rules have become so rigid that every year a small crime wave sweeps over Cambridge at Jubilee time. The following incidents were the result of last Friday's festivities...
...country, it was hoped that he might promoto a closer harmony and a deeper mutual appreciation between the United States and Finland. Unquestionably he was at least partially successful in achieving that end during the first few months of his visit. His running was phenomenal. It brought forth a wave of enthusiastic applause never before extended to a track athlete. Then suddenly Nurmi became too popular. Audiences grew colder, newspapers less polite, and finally the petty track officials of the middle West tried to bar him from amateur competition...
...years ago today the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. America needed just that shock to force active participation in the world war. The bitter wave of hatred which followed in the wake of this calamity swept America forward to the rescue of the Allied nations. It was for is great cause...
...mispronounces it. "-But we spel leag so foreners and children won't pronouns it in 2 sylables like ague. They call head heed, like bead, but our hed is clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will be pronounsd like gave, lave, nave, rave, save, wave. We all know by, my, try, etc. Extended study has proved y the best way to write this sound, so we spel replyd, hyt (for the absurd height), myt. Some spellings move the mirth of novices in fonology, but it makes them think and perhaps inquire and they see that...
...those who take such necessary support for granted, it is interesting to note that the suppression of these two publications has brought on a wave of petty declarations from other college offices to the effect that any similar infringement of journalistic etiquette would be severely punished. Other colleges evidently felt that they might need to protect themselves against the irrepressible doings of their undergraduates, and be called upon to justify their actions in the eyes of the world. Unaffected by outside protest, the authorities of Harvard have quietly continued to keep their hands off of student opinion, knowing that...