Word: unsought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has already tried to analyze the local failure of the non-scouting plan: Information which although unsought is nevertheless difficult toward off, daily reports from metropolitan sports writers, unfounded but disturbing rumors--these are the dangers faced by Harvard when it enters into a non-scouting entente. True. Yale faces them, too--that is, with the exception of the daily battery of omniscient newspaper men and their--tell-tale cameras. But, as the News admits, "in Boston it looks different". Harvard, realizing that the situation not-only looks but is different, has very wisely decided not to enter...
...subscriber to your publication for two or three years past, I feel entitled to offer some criticism. Your repeated references to an unfortunate lynching which occurred here during the early hours of Oct. 8 has given this community quite as much unfavorable and unsought publicity as necessary. Why not review some past racial affair in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter...
...these powers will persist in having it so, they ought at least to see what a bashful, reluctant, stubborn fledgling they are forcing to assert unsought dominance. Alexander and Napoleon craved world dominion and went in search of it. But Uncle Sam is having it rammed down his throat...
...Fame, unsought and perhaps unwelcome, has come to two of the naval petroleum reserves?Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, immortally linked with Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These reserves may well be envious of their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
...tends to become weak and ineffective because it seemingly pursues a policy of calling its material from the composition courses of the University and because it makes little or no effort to go out after its stories, but rather waits for them to be handed in by voluntary and unsought contributors...