Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...
...Wood, Jr. '32, stellar quarterback on the football, team, and Freshman hockey and baseball luminary, has been nominated as one of the 17 members of the United States Davis Cup squad for 1930, it was announced yesterday by Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the Davis Cup Committee...
Just as modest was Norman J. Makin. newly appointed Speaker of the Australian Parliament. At news of his appointment he summoned reporters, announced that he would follow the precedent of previous Labor Speakers and wear neither wig nor robes in Parliament...
When at Harvard's last mass meeting almost two years ago, one of the greatest ends ever to wear the Crimson described his Utopian ideal of Harvard undergraduates studying with a football in their hands, he forgot that the idea was not new. Coach Laval also probably did not realize that the fundamental idea of his cure for fumbling has long been in practice right here in Cambridge. For years, Harvard students have been juggling books and fountain pens, as they made their increasingly procarious way about the streets radiating from Harvard Square. Of course as Mr. Laval will...
Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable to the usual fines, imprisonments...