Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
...editorial candidate reports every night in the week except Saturday with one editorial on a Harvard topic or concerning some interesting aspect of the day's general news. He develops his own initiative in digging up subjects to write upon. His powers of judgment and analysis are given opportunity to show themselves in working up an intelligent, fresh comment. Little else can polish up his technical skill and his ability to write what he thinks as can the daily practice of writing a three hundred word editorial. Last but not least, the candidate has the benefit of a careful...
...audiences, filled the Civic Repertory Theatre. Situated on drab 14th Street, it is theatrically "downtown" (28 blocks below Times Square), a dilapidated structure with a facade of fire escapes, balcony pillars obstructing the view, and an unusually oppressive heating plant. It offers few conveniences either to audience or actors except vast, barnlike spaces in which many sets of scenery may simultaneously be hung. Yet last week, and every week this season, it was jammed. It was Mrs. Hoover's first choice of a theatre to go to when she visited Manhattan last month...
Likely Lady has been known all over the country and won blues everywhere except in Chicago, where she was sick. Robert Moreland, famed Kentucky horse-trader, bred her. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Palmer of Grosse Point, Mich., own her. One James Thompson rode her, sitting back in the Kentucky style to accentuate the machine-like rhythm of her action. She won the most important class for saddle horses...
...have nothing to say except that it was stubbornly fought and that Harvard is to be complimented on its victory."--W. W. Greene, Yale captain...