Word: sprawled
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...these characteristics have their importance, and each of them is worrying in its own way the mind of the University. But the last is by far the most troublesome. For ugliness improves with age--the red sprawl of two weeks is the delightful, gurgling wonder of two months nakedness eventually loses itself in pink ribbons and embroidered flannel--but autocracy grows greater and becomes more formidable with the passing of the months. The tutorial system is doing just that. So the brotherly heart of the lecture system beats the double time of panic. And fear seeps its way into...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over...