Word: dated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Date. The fixation of Oct. 29 as the date for the general elections was made, according to The Times of London, to avoid clashing with the municipal elections, the date of which is fixed...
...most keenly felt. Shakespeare will have to be revised, and Portia made to say: "How far that glawing mazda throws its beams." Since the coming generation will never have seen a candle except as a painful substitute for electricity, ancient authors will have to be brought up to date, or the favorite similies of candles and oil will not be understood. Such parables as that of the foolish virgins, who used up too soon all the oil for their lamps will lose all their significance. "But Mother," the modern precocity will say, "why didn't they get new batteries...
...Princeton-Navy game gives the Tigers a chance to retrieve their lost laurels. Roper's team has suffered in prestige from its spotty showing against Lehigh. Reports from Princeton indicate that the Orange and Black team is far stronger than its showing to date would indicate. Coach Roper resents the idea that his team is doomed to be at the bottom of the Big Three heap...
...headed "It's Clever but is it Art?" serves admirably to point the article in the Saturday Evening Post which it criticises. If the writer really believes that familiarity with so significant an event as the Treaty of Utrecht indicates "a pedantic hankering after specific facts" and that the date of so significant a landmark in the history of English literature as the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany is to be considered deadwood. I feel sure he is in a fair way of becoming the type of college graduate (not limited to Harvard) to which I took objection. I doubt...
Either today or tomorrow, Mr. H. J. C. Mackarness, will give an after dinner address at the Liberal Club. The entertainment committee has arranged to have Mr. Mackarness come to Cambridge, but at a late hour last night it has not been possible to settle the date definitely. Members of the University who are interested, may find the exact time and date by calling at the Liberal Club today at noon...