Word: patching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...year ago, about three miles from Grand Junction, Tenn., a white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...
...month and the winner of their race ought to break the record. . . . Jonas ingraham, brother of "Navy Bill" Ingraham, and athletic director at Annapolis has resigned . . . Since he was the central figure in the Army-Navy break rumors along newspaper, row have it that the two service academies will patch up their difficulties and play football again. . . . Albie Booth will have his fifth try at being on a winning Yale team against Harvard in the Crimson-Blue basketball clash on March 8. . . He played against Harvard on the Freshman football, basketball, and baseball teams last year and on the varsity...
Rheumatism combined with overwork have reduced Author Joyce to near-blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most...
Appointments of four lecturers to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were announced yesterday at University Hall. Professor Oliver Elton, of the University of Liverpool, and H. R. Patch, Professor of English at Smith College, will teach in the English Department during the year 1930-31. Gaetano Salvemini, of the University of Florence, will lecture in the History Department this next half year while Josef Schumpeter, of Bonn, will be associated with the Economics Department...
Professor Patch will be lecturer in English for the second half of the year 1930-31. He was graduated from Hobart College, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before he became professor of English at Smith in 1924 he was an instructor at Harvard, a lecturer and later assistant and associate professor at Bryn Mawr. He has written several studies on English literature...