Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benet is one of the most promising of the younger school of writers, and his best known work, "John Brown's Body", had an unusually large first edition, totalling 65,000 volumes...
Whether or not the athletic association has adopted the McFadden policy of plenty of fresh air and open spaces, or that time has merely over-taken the repair department has been carefully concealed. Undoubtedly these innovations will add zest to a game that depends on fast foot work, for next to the traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended...
...entire squad will be given a complete respite from hard work today when all 34 men and the entire coaching staff will motor to the Myopia Hunt Club for a day of rest. The squad will leave at 2 o'clock and will not return until late in the evening. A possible light workout may be in order if the weather is suitable. Tomorrow and Thursday Coach Knox's seconds will put on a demonstration of Yale plays and Coach Knox and Harper will give their impressions of the Blue team. Knox has scouted every Yale game since the Harvard...
Last fall, "John Brown's Body" was published. To accomplish this work, Mr. Benet lived in the South of France on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, which enabled him to devote most of his time to the writing of the book, without being disturbed by financial worry...
...returned to America a year ago to find that the work published in his absence had gained him great fame...