Word: nosedive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Webb, Sidney, erudite Secretary of State for the colonies and dominions. Long nosed, with pince-nez glasses and a pointed chin beard, Sidney Vebb is a noted author, one of Britain's greatest political economists. In these works his partner is his no-less intellectual wife, Beatrice Potter Webb...
His speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the...
The Harvard second baseball team was nosed out by the Yale substitutes in the ninth inning of Saturday's encounter on Soldiers Field, the score being 3 to 2. It was the last game of the year for both nines.
Yale has a great dual meet team. Pennsylvania, with the strongest aggregation in the East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton...
Other surprises might be mentioned. For example on the cinders R. H. O'Connell '30 nosed out Marsters for second in the low hurdles, while G. W. Smith '29 came from sixth to third in the one mile run. On the field T. H. Alcock '29 achived second in the...