Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution passed by the Council was the result of a petition signed by 568 undergraduates, asking for a subsidy for the club and requesting the Athletic Association to supply a coach. It stressed the increase of interest among the students, as shown especially by the amount of work they accomplished in building the new cabin in Jackson, New Hampshire. It will not become final until it has been passed by the Athletic Council...
Never having been to Hollywood, I don't know what the place is like and don't care. But from a purely philological interest I'd like to know what language the quoted lady speaks...
...took ten years for young Alfred to get the bit between his teeth. On his 21st birthday he inherited his mother's stable. When he was 25, he bought a sizable interest in the venerable Pimlico race track outside Baltimore (of which he later became president). The same year he became the youngest member of The Jockey Club, the handful of oligarchs who govern U. S. horse racing. Last week Alfred Vanderbilt succeeded ailing 66-year-old Joseph E. Widener as head of New York's elegant $4,000,000 Belmont Park, founded in 1905 by Granduncle William...
...resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs than the Harvard backfield...
...authority on the Far Eastern situation, Fairbank said that the United States has no way of using direct force to protect its interest. The country has inadequate naval power in the Orient...