Word: y
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other incumbent is adipose, leonine Richard Yates, onetime (1901-05) Governor of Illinois, an aging person whose chief distinction in the House was that his name alone began with "Y" (until this year, when Representative Tom A. Yon arrived from Florida...
Reported Engaged. Prime Minister Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, 58, Grandee of Spain and Dictator since 1923, to Senorita Nina Castillano, 47, daughter of the Countess de San Felice of San Sebastien. The prospective bride enjoys an annual income of 500,000 pesetas...
...other hand the book will contain about 30 more pages than the publication of last year, according to the editors. The printing contract has been awarded to the Andover Press, of Andover, while the half tones will be done by the Electric City Engraving Company, of Buffalo, N. Y...
...Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying a scarf made under conditions of sweated labor in some...
...chess team representing Harvard lead a team from Princeton who finished second to the University in the last annual tournament of the H-Y-P-W. College Chess League, 2 to 1 after an afternoon session Saturday. Although originally it was planned to contest this first match of this year's tournament on five boards, due to the non-appearance of one of the Tiger men, only four were used...